0 A make-or-break situation will bring great success or complete failure.
1 used to describe a decision, event, or period of time that is very important because it can make something succeed or fail completely:
Voluntary choice is important but does not plausibly have the make-or-break significance that soft paternalism attaches to it.
If cuts and restrictions to save the industry were being presented now as a make-or-break deal, the industry would accept them.
For a bishop to be accused of stealing a milk bottle is the make-or-break moment for that man's career.
It appears to me that the country is now in a make-or-break situation as far as concerns the coal industry.
These are the crucial make-or-break negotiations, and it might be of value if we looked at them for a moment in some little detail.
We are approaching a make-or-break period for the structural fund programmes.
We are not talking about one make-or-break negotiating session.
Do not make this or any other issue a make-or-break issue for the agreement.
