break step

break step
phrasal
: to fail to keep step : walk or march out of step

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break step
To change the sequence of right and left foot, so as to get out of step
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Main Entry: ↑step

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I
see step
II
stop walking or marching in step with others

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break step — see ↑step, 1
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Main Entry: ↑break
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break step
: to stop walking or marching with the same rhythm as another person or group of people

The soldier was startled and broke step.

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Main Entry: ↑step

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break ˈstep f6 idiom
to change the way you are walking so that you do not walk in the same rhythm as the people you are walking or marching with

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The soldiers turned without once breaking step.

Main entry: ↑stepidiom

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