Definition
to reveal dramatic and unexpected news that changes a situation completely
In Context
- "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."