the.com/disconnect
The clean break, whether you mean the cable or the conversation.
means To sever a link between two things, or the gap that appears when two parties stop understanding each other.
from From Latin dis- (apart) plus connectere (to bind together) — literally to un-bind, undoing the very word it lives inside.
Noun twistBecame a noun for mismatched ideas around the 1980s.
Phone rootsTelephone operators popularized it: literally pulling plugs.
Modern cureNow marketed as wellness, not a malfunction.