break out

Meaning

1. Oxford50% of films

   to escape from a place or situation

2. Editorial33% of films

   to take something out of storage and get it ready to use

3. Oxford17% of films

   to start suddenly

In the movies · 37

• You could count on a fight breaking out almost every night.Airplane!1980
• We gotta break out of here before we're totally boxed in.Inception2010
• The minute a real war breaks out, all that fancy tech is gonna go dark.Jurassic World2015
• Break out now.eXistenZ1999
• Break out the L-word.Scott Pilgrim vs. the World2010
• Fights would break out.Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief2015
• She's trying to break out.Captain Marvel2019
• Sorry Break outSpace Jam1996

Learn it in full scenes

• Airplane!1980
  • The White Zone vs the Red Zone
  • Elaine Leaves Ted at the Airport
  • Ted Meets Elaine on the Plane

From the same entry

• break away
• break down
• break down
• break for
• break in
• break in
• break in
• break into
• break off
• break off
• break out in
• break through

More phrasal verbs

• run into
• log in
• breathe out
• drop by
• look into
• mess with
• fall behind
• come out of
• pass away
• join in
• hold on to
• go with