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    The phrase "we were on a break" comes from the TV show Friends. During an argument, Rachel tells Ross they should take a break from their relationship. Later, Ross mistakenly thinks Rachel is with another man and has an affair. When Rachel finds out, she claims they were just on a break, not fully broken up, while Ross insists the break meant the end of their relationship, making his affair not cheating. This disagreement over the meaning of their break coined the popular phrase.

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    The phrase "we were on a break" comes from the TV show Friends. During an argument, Rachel tells Ross they should take a break from their relationship. Later, Ross mistakenly thinks Rachel is with another man and has an affair. When Rachel finds out, she claims they were just on a break, not fully broken up, while Ross insists the break meant the end of their relationship, making his affair not cheating. This disagreement over the meaning of their break coined the popular phrase.

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    The phrase "we were on a break" comes from the TV show Friends. During an argument, Rachel tells Ross they should take a break from their relationship. Later, Ross mistakenly thinks Rachel is with another man and has an affair. When Rachel finds out, she claims they were just on a break, not fully broken up, while Ross insists the break meant the end of their relationship, making his affair not cheating. This disagreement over the meaning of their break coined the popular phrase.

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    Origin

    As we said, the phrase has its roots in episode titled "The One Where Ross And Rachel Take A
    Break", when a rift between Ross and Rachel came to a head. At the time, Ross mistakenly
    suspected that Rachel was having an affair with a co-worker of hers, Mark Robinson,
    and had subsequently frequently complained about how much time she had been spending away
    from him and with Mark. Eventually Rachel became so frustrated with the amount of arguments
    she and Ross had been having over something that seemed so trivial to her that a fateful row with
    him ended with the following dialog:
     Rachel: ...Maybe we should just take a break!
     Ross: Okay, fine. Fine. Let's take a break. Let's cool off. Let's get some frozen yogurt or
    something.
     Rachel: No! ...a break from us.
    The couple separate immediately afterwards. Both Ross and Rachel separately confess that the
    conversation construed a "breakup" and that their relationship was effectively over.

    After the breakup, Ross retreats to a bar, and eventually decides to telephone Rachel at her
    apartment and reconcile with her. However, Ross overhears that Mark was there and mistakenly
    thinks he is there to be with Rachel and angrily hangs up, convinced now his suspicions about her
    affair with Mark were right and his relationship with her is now over.

    Ross ends up having an affair with another woman. The next morning, he hears a message she
    left on his answering machine telling him she wants to reconcile with him. Rachel aventually finds
    out about the affair and asserts that Ross' one-night stand was an act of cheating while Ross
    maintains that since they had broken up, no cheating had occurred. Rachel attempts to contradict
    the "breakup" interpretation of their previous fateful dialog by turning it into "we were on a break!”
    This unsuccessful attempt, which is never repeated, coins the phrase.

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