break the fourth wall (English, verb)
expansion: break the fourth wall (third-person singular simple present breaks the fourth wall, present participle breaking the fourth wall, simple past broke the fourth wall, past participle broken the fourth wall)
Senses:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: To apparently communicate with reality directly, such as when characters of literature comment on the existence of a reader.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: breaks the fourth wall
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: breaking the fourth wall
tags: participle
present
form: broke the fourth wall
tags: past
form: broken the fourth wall
tags: participle
past