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Breaking Repeat Telephone Conversation Cease Understandable Bad Connection

Sentence You're breaking up. Can you repeat that?
Definition (
intransitive
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idiomatic
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) Of a telephone conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection.

Tags: break, up

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