Verb
catch a break (third-person singular simple present catches a break, present participle catching a break, simple past and past participle caught a break)
(idiomatic, informal) To experience the minimal amount of good luck or a favorable outcome.
Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren't. You are pure at heart or you aren't. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break. Richard Siken
Noir deals with the disenfranchised: people who can't catch a break under normal circumstances. In noir books, you root for these people, but you know they are going to fail. That's what makes them so compellingly human. I can relate to that kind of stuff. Brian Azzarello