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bomb-shell|ˈbʌm-, ˈbɒmʃɛl|
= bomb 2. Often fig. (or in fig. phr.). A shattering or devastating act, event, etc. Phr. blonde bomb-shell, a fair-haired person, esp. a woman, of startling vitality or physique.
1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4467/3 Kill'd..by a piece of Bomb-Shell. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) II. xiv. 206 The famous..letter, which descended like a bombshell, in the midst of the decorous council-chamber. 1926M. Sutherland One o' the Herd vii, Do you think it was kind to let her think she had plenty and then drop down on her like this? It's a regular bomb-shell. 1928Manch. Guardian Weekly 26 Oct. 337/1 The letters do not drop any historical bombshells. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §184/14 Blonde Bombshell (as a nickname). 1949A. Hynd Public Enemies 41 (Wentworth & Flexner), Bonnie Parker was a rootin', tootin', whisky-drinking blonde bombshell. 1951E. Coxhead One Green Bottle iii. 86 Cathy..now had standing and a soubriquet. She became the Merseyside Menace, or, alternatively, the Birkenhead Bombshell. 1955M. Hastings Cork & Serpent ii. 29 ‘What was she like?’..‘A blonde bombshell I should call her, sir.’ 1965Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1072/3 The bombshell effects..of the intellectual and social crises of late antiquity. |