Idiom: break the news
Meaning
Idiom: break the news (to someone)
- to inform someone of something bad that has happened
Example sentences
— I hate to be the one to break the news but I heard they gave the position you wanted to a guy from the marketing department.
— When I broke the news that I was moving to Japan, my wife cried for hours and said she wasn’t coming with me.
— They just broke the news that there was a mass shooting at a high school in Florida.
— When are you going to break the news about the layoffs?
— Where were you when they broke the news about the 911 terrorist attacks?
— Who wants to break the news to the director that Sandy quit without notice?
— At Bechtel Corporation, I had to break the news to families when their relatives died working at our construction sites.
— This weekend we need to break the news to our daughter that we're getting a divorce.
— When the veterinarian broke the news that our dog was suffering and we should put her to sleep we were devastated.
— My doctor had little compassion when he broke the news I had contracted a sexually transmitted disease.
— We're going to have to break the news to the kids soon that we can't go to Disney World next month.
— I want someone to be with my sister when we break the news that my dad's in intensive care at the hospital.
Synonyms
- bring something out into the open
- bring something to light
- let the cat out of the bag
- put one's cards on the table
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