Breaks and Slips

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Slips and breaks are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Slips" instead the word "Breaks" as a noun or a verb.

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Breaks and slips are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Breaks" instead the word "Slips" as a noun or a verb.

As he's leaving the house, he slips and breaks his hip.

Source: Theatre / The Man Who Came to Dinner
Kilroy from Don't Drink the Water is such an annoying kiss-ass that there's a Running Gag throughout the second act of him getting horribly injured: he slips and breaks his arm, gets hit in the head with a brick, causing him to go crazy, and to top it off Walter accidentally shoots him!

Source: Butt Monkey / Theatre
And woe to the hero whose Dexterity falls to 0, who suddenly slips on a banana peel and breaks his neck.

Source: Stat Death

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