To step into the breech

Question

Is that the right context for using this expression?

“you could count on one hand the number of Native people doing hip-hop” in the 90’s (Harris, 2016). It was only millennials who stepped into the breach in the 2000s.

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

Karol Silski 5217Is that the right context for using this expression?

Yes. That sounds like a possibility.

CJ

Clive · Answer

I don't think your sentence is a good example. Consider this.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&ved=0ahUKEwjrlP-B9fTaAhXD44MKHZ7YAooQFghmMAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.collinsdictionary.com%2Fdictionary%2Fenglish%2Fstep-into-the-breach&usg=AOvVaw362pBYUmUULzccJRZZCd58

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/step-into-the-breach

If you step into the breach, you do a job or task which someone else was supposed to do or has done in the past, because they are suddenly unable to do it.

So, say eg Mary was sick yesterday, so one of her co-workers stepped into the breach.

Clive

To step into the breech

Top answer

Get the Weekly English Kit 📬

I don't think your sentence is a good example. Consider this.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esr

Related Questions