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break the wheel

verb

Etymology

Presumably inspired by a scene in the episode "Hardhome" (2015) of Game of Thrones, in which Daenerys Targaryen, reflecting on her plan to reclaim the Iron Throne, vows to "break the wheel" of oppression and war.

Definitions

  1. To end a pattern of oppression, inequality, injustice, or abuse.

    • The head of one of Canada's largest unions says it's time to break the wheel and change the way businesses are operated.
    • I do not see any possibility for breaking the wheel of the prevailing capitalist and liberal ideology or any kind of ideology.

  2. To instigate or enact a major change

    To instigate or enact a major change; to revolutionize; to shake up.

    • Polar codes break the wheel in channel coding area with its unconventional perspective of code construction than that of the traditional codes and become a youngest contender in the 5G race.
    • This is an example of Kant's 'Copernican Revolution' breaking the wheel of empiricism and rationalism, inaugurating a new form of transcendental regulation that is to say weak correlationism.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA