drop a bombshell
English
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Verb
- (idiomatic) To announce surprising or alarming information suddenly and without warning.
- 2000, Dan McCaffery, Tommy Burns: Canada's Unknown World Heavyweight Champion, page 135:
- When the two men got together to discuss contract arrangements, the challenger dropped a bombshell.
- "If you lie down you can have the whole purse — $10,000," O'Brien told him.23
- 2009, Marion Brown III, The Worst Part of Me, page 116:
- "Yeah, you are my baby's daddy. Well I have to leave, but we'll be in touch."
- Asia dropped a piece of paper on my desk and walked out the door with a huge smile on her face. […] How could Asia just come in and drop a bombshell and then walk out like there was nothing to it?
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Translations
to announce surprising information without warning
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