Meaning of drop the bomb | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, bomb.
2. to reveal dramatic and unexpected news that changes a situation completely
   idiomatic

Examples

“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.”

“Melanie dropped the bomb. "His buddy was a Mr. Henry Decatur."”

“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.”

“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?””

“Then she'd dropped the bomb: she was pregnant.”

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