spring sth on sb
— phrasal verb with spring uk/sprɪŋ/us/sprɪŋ/verb [ I usually + adv/prep ] sprang or US also sprung, sprung
to suddenly tell or ask someone something when they do not expect it:
I hope he's not going to spring any nasty surprises on us at the meeting this morning.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Surprising and shocking
- a blinding flash idiom
- a bolt from/out of the blue idiom
- amaze
- amazing
- astonish
- bolt
- breath
- dynamite
- earth-shattering
- expectation
- eye-opener
- faze
- revelation
- staggering
- startle
- startling
- sting
- stunning
- stupefy
- thunderbolt
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