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break the news
Idioms and Phrases
Make something known, as in We suspected that she was pregnant but waited for her to break the news to her in-laws . This term, in slightly different form ( break a matter or break a business ), dates from the early 1500s. Another variant is the 20th-century journalistic phrase, break a story , meaning “to reveal a news item or make it available for publication.â€Example Sentences
Where Southgate, certainly towards the end of his reign, would break the news to new or unexpected call-ups on the day of a squad announcement, Tuchel confirmed with some players that they would be called up the evening before the big reveal.
He experimented with how best to break the news of his situation - sometimes he would give the heads-up before meeting, other times he would tell them in person.
Filled with relief, then dread, Hannah began calling her friends to break the news.
In yet another example of the Kamala Harris campaign being too cute by half, a new interview revealed that they hoped to break the news of Tim Walz's vice presidential nomination through ESPN's former head of hoops scoops.
Speaking to Sports Illustrated, Adrian Wojnarowski shared that the Harris campaign reached out to him with the news of Walz's nomination first, hoping to break the news in the same venue as blockbuster basketball trades.
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