drop the bomb
English
Verb
drop the bomb (third-person singular simple present drops the bomb, present participle dropping the bomb, simple past and past participle dropped the bomb)
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see drop, bomb.
- To reveal dramatic and unexpected news that changes a situation completely.
- 2011, Chris Myers Asch, The Senator and the Sharecropper, →ISBN:
- A mere two months after the New Orleans hearings, the Supreme Court dropped the bomb that Eastland and other white southerners feared: Brown. Much as the Chinese Communists' victory and the Russian's building of the atomic bomb in 1949 had ignited the Cold War and anti-Communism, the Brown decision took the struggle for and against black freedom to a new level of intensity.
- 2011, Cege Smith, Edge of Shadows, →ISBN:
- Melanie dropped the bomb. "His buddy was a Mr. Henry Decatur."
- 2014, Mary Kay Andrews, Save the Date, →ISBN:
- Sylvia finally returned my calls yesterday, and while I was in the middle of chewing her out about the airconditioning, she dropped the bomb. Said it didn't matter because she'd sold the building.
- Gail Sattler, 2014, The Best Man's Holiday Romance, →ISBN:
- Natasha gulped and tried to look cheerful when she dropped the bomb on him. “Four down, forty-six to go.” Jeff froze. “Excuse me? Did I hear you right? That means you have to buy fifty Christmas presents?”
- 2014, Rexanne Becnel, The Christmas Train, →ISBN:
- Then she'd dropped the bomb: she was pregnant.
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