break it/the news to sb
C2 to tell someone about something unpleasant that will affect or upset them :
Come on, what happened? Break it to me gently (= in a kind way).
I didn't want to be the one to break the news to him.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Announcing, informing & stating
- acquaint sb/yourself with sth
- advise
- advisement
- annunciation
- awake
- come out
- confront
- declare
- fyi
- give sb a heads up idiom
- hand
- head
- let sb know idiom
- official
- pronouncement
- put
- put sth out 1
- spread the word idiom
- tell
- unannounced
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