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break up (STOP CLASSES) phrasal verb UK #1 (permalink) Sun Jun 24, 2007 20:43 pm   break up (STOP CLASSES) phrasal verb UK
 

break up (STOP CLASSES) phrasal verb UK
When schools and colleges, or the teachers and students who go to them break up, their classes stop and the holidays start:
We broke up for the holidays in June.

My question:
How is it said in American English? Do they use "break up" for this meaning or something else?

Thanks,
Majid, Iran
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break up (STOP CLASSES) phrasal verb UK #2 (permalink) Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:59 am   break up (STOP CLASSES) phrasal verb UK
 

I think the meaning you refered to with 'break up' is not necessarily UK usage but universal.
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break up (STOP CLASSES) phrasal verb UK #3 (permalink) Mon Jun 25, 2007 17:33 pm   break up (STOP CLASSES) phrasal verb UK
 

awake2reality wrote:
break up (STOP CLASSES) phrasal verb UK
When schools and colleges, or the teachers and students who go to them break up, their classes stop and the holidays start:
We broke up for the holidays in June.

My question:
How is it said in American English? Do they use "break up" for this meaning or something else?

Thanks,
Majid, Iran
I probably would not use 'break up' that way. Usually we say something such as this:

School let out for the summer on June 14th.
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break up (STOP CLASSES) phrasal verb UK #4 (permalink) Mon Jun 25, 2007 17:57 pm   break up (STOP CLASSES) phrasal verb UK
 

"School let out for the summer on June 14th"

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks very much Amy and Haihao.
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