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break it/the news to someone
idiom
C2
to tell someone about something unpleasant that will affect or upset them : 把不好的消息告诉…
break it gentlyCome on, what happened? Break it to me gently (= in a kind way).究竟发生了什么事？好好地告诉我吧。
I didn't want to be the one to break the news to him.我可不想把这种消息告诉他。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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acquaint someone/yourself with something
annunciation
apprise someone of something
avowedly
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bear
break
impart
pass
proclaim
propagate
propagative
public
put something before someone
put something out
put something out of its miseryidiom
reported
ring
smoke signal
stake a claimidiom
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