Be Bold. 'Break the Mold'! — VOA Learning English
Topics: суспільство
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And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English.
Today, we talk about making things.
When you make things using a mold, the material takes the shape of the mold, and everything comes out the same. So, if you have a mold of a duck and put clay inside it, you will have a lot of ducks made out of clay with the same shape. They will look exactly like each other.
Now, if you break the mold, you have to shape the clay by hand to make one duck at a time. As a result, all of the hand-made ducks will look different. Each one is special and unique.
That is where we get the expression to break the mold.
The dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster says to break the mold mean “you do something in a…
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