Once more into the...

[trinker]

BREACH. Once more into the breach. Breach of etiquette. Rift, gap in a wall

Comments

[sinboy]

"Breach of contract" is the example most people see in print. Unless it's from someone not as grammatically correct as you, in which case it's "breech of contract"

[trinker]

*nod* I was so flabbergasted by the example I gave (when I saw it used by someone who then was talking about needing to follow rules of etiquette just like rules of spelling!) that I forgot the most common use. Thanks for the fill-in.

[profrobert]

Only in England can you have your finger in a dyke and a fag in your mouth, and not cause any kind of sensation.

[hitchhiker]

also, it was "once more *unto* the breach"

[marydell]

Once more unto the breeches!

[kest]

important: 'breeches' is sometimes pronounced 'britches', as in 'too big for his'

[kest]

(don't mind me, I just wandered over from onceupon)

[trinker]

I figured that was the case, but I was boggled for a moment - your username is only one letter off from someone on my f-list (kesf, and it looks very, very similar - and I was trying to figure out why she was reading onceupon.

[trinker]

The American style is to write that one "britches", I think.