break one's fall

Interrupt a tumble or descent, as in It's a long way down over this cliff, with nothing to break your fall. [Mid-1800s]

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Beck	[bek]
Apollonia	-	Ancient Greek, Italian
Ebenezer	eb-ə-NEE-zər (English)	Biblical
Endre (1)	-	Hungarian
Edison	['edisn]
Mina (1)	MEE-nə (English), MEE-nah (Dutch, Limburgish)	English, Dutch, Limburgish