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vb. (en-pastbreak even)
Usage examples of "broke even".
I more than broke even by winning pretty close to $10,000 on the ponies down there.
Fed up with Southern California smog and traffic and wanting to change our lifestyle, which now that I look back on it was the only sane thing to do, I sold the boat thank God I sold the boat and actually broke even-then sold the house, bought a new car, a big 1969 Mercury Monterey four-door sedan, and a tent trailer.
Fed up with Southern California smog and traffic andwanting to change our lifestyle, which now that I look back on it wasthe only sane thing to do, I sold the boat thank God I sold the boat andactually broke even-then sold the house, bought a new car, a big 1969Mercury Monterey four-door sedan, and a tent trailer.
He taught me to play poker well enough that I broke even every weekend.
We won two out of three games at Montreal, broke even with the hard-fighting Bisons, took three straight from Rochester, and won one and tied one out of three with Hartford.
In Dodge and Abilene they did better, but in Cheyenne they found the competition of a better troupe and barely broke even.