| Subject | English | Russian |
| gen. | break a taboo | нарушить табу (напр, as the first former US president to visit Havana in more than 70 years, Jimmy Carter was at once breaking a US political taboo Olga Okuneva) |
| gen. | break taboo | растабуировать (Anglophile) |
| fig. | break taboos | заплывать за буйки (Супру) |
| gen. | break taboos | нарушать запреты (Alex_Odeychuk) |