| Summary: | break v Example: "I was never one to break my path for anyone." To break one's path means to attempt to avoid meeting another person by taking a different route. This is a form of evasion practiced when two people are not on the best of terms and one person does not wish to approach another, probably through embarassment or fear of another argument. This can be construed as an admission of guilt because the very xxxx act of evasion can be said to prove that the person who "breaks his path" before another is in the wrong. In the two instances that I have heard the phrase, it referred to quite serious matters, though this may not necessarily be the general rule This saying is used among the adults and is not as common as formerly. DNE-cit Corrected from Sept 23 NOV 2 1965 [check] Used I Used I 2 Used I Source appears in DNE I as C 66-13
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