break the news

English

Alternative forms

• break it, break it to

Verb

break the news (third-person singular simple present breaks the news, present participle breaking the news, simple past broke the news, past participle broken the news)

1. (transitive with to) To inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person.

   I didn't know how to break the news to her that her best friend had been in a car accident.

Translations

to inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person

• Hungarian: tudtára ad, elmond (hu), közöl (hu)
• Russian: сообщить (неприятные) новости (soobščitʹ (neprijatnyje) novosti)