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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