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What does break the news mean?

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Verb
  1. To inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person.
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At first he wanted to tell only his mother, but with the guidance of a counsellor he decided to break the news to everyone in his community.
Meanwhile it has been decided, humanely, not to break the news to the orang-utan himself until the weather gets cooler.
I hate to break the news, but molly Shannon would definitely not make it through the zombie apocalypse.
When police went to the family home to break the news to Lauren Caple, 35, they found her battered body.
The hardest task was to go to mam in her eighties and break the news.
That's why it can sometimes make sense to release the information to a major outlet first so they can break the news.

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