break the news to someone

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Thank God, it wasn't he who had to break the news to the woman that her husband and her daughter had both been killed in the car crash that had fractured her skull. (NBC)

Vicky searched the house for Seth, to break the news that she was leaving. (NBC)

If their naivety is to be believed, they're in for more painful disillusionment when someone can bear to break the news to them that the tooth fairy doesn't exist and that the singing Madonna is no virgin. (NBC)


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