>>Well you'd never be able to say it if I didn't mention it so I was wondering if I could get a "break a leg"
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>Break a leg.
>And if it's your first time ever, be warned that there's some taboo with mentioning the word Macbeth on stage except as part of the lines. Don't know why exactly, but I said it and had to do twilrs and repeat words I no longer remember to lose the curse.

IIRC, "Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends." Black Adder, "Sense and senility", season III.