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"I break something every morning. I am the first meal of the day. The thing I break is not a physical object. What am I?"

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Answer: Breakfast. Breakfast literally means 'break fast' — breaking the overnight fast. The fast is not a physical thing but a period of not eating. The word comes from Old English, describing the first meal that ends the night's abstinence from food.

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