Usually means: Take responsibility when others can't.
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  1. step into the breach: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. step into the breach: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. step into the breach: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. step into the breach: Wiktionary

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  1. step into the breach: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (step into the breach)

verb:  (figuratively) To do a task that one is not ordinarily expected to do because there is no one else to do it.

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