drop the bomb | Idiomator

Meaning: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seedrop,‎bomb.; (idiomatic)torevealdramaticandunexpectednewsthatchangesa situation completely2011, Chris Myers Asch,The Senator and the Sharecropper,→ISBN:A mere two months after the New Orleans hearings, the Supreme Courtdropped the bombthat 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.2011, Cege Smith,Edge of Shadows,→ISBN:Melaniedropped the bomb. "His buddy was a Mr. Henry Decatur."2014, Mary Kay Andrews,Save the Date,→ISBN:Sylvia finally returned my calls yesterday, and while I was in the middle of chewing her out about the airconditioning, shedropped the bomb. Said it didn't matter because she'd sold the building.2014, Gail Sattler,The Best Man's Holiday Romance,→ISBN:Natasha gulped and tried to look cheerful when shedropped the bombon 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?”2014, Rexanne Becnel,The Christmas Train,→ISBN:Then she'ddropped the bomb: she was pregnant.

Examples:

EN: How far from the target do we drop the bomb?
ES: ¿A qué distancia del objetivo tendremos que liberarla?
EN: I asked you originally if you could fly in over water and drop the bomb at 150 feet.
ES: Le pedí que volaran a 45 metros de altura para lanzarla.
EN: But if we don't drop the bomb, Chicago will most certainly fall.
ES: Pero si no dejamos caer la bomba, Chicago seguramente caerá.
EN: And then I'll drop the bomb and it's over.
ES: Y luego haré estallar una bomba que destruirá todo.
EN: Don't anybody drop the bomb but me.
ES: Traigo noticias impresionantes:
EN: Before you drop the bomb of a reply Consider who will be wounded
ES: Antes de replicar, piense en a quién herirá.
EN: But we haven't lived. Jason, he didn't drop the bomb.
ES: Jason, él no lanzó la bomba.
EN: They drop the bomb tomorrow. So, why worry? Who cares?
ES: Los corredores de apuesta y los traficantes sacan más que los predicadores.
EN: Well, nothing is. They drop the bomb tomorrow, pop!
ES: Bueno, nada lo es.
EN: Low enough to drop the bomb directly into the lava.
ES: Lo bastante como para soltar la bomba directamente a la lava.
EN: Look, if you ask me, we ought to drop the bomb on China before they drop it on us.
ES: Si por mí fuera, deberíamos bombardear China antes de que lo hagan ellos.
EN: They didn't drop the bomb!
ES: - No lanzaron la bomba.
EN: We've just left the president. He agreed to drop the bomb.
ES: El Presidente acordó arrojar la bomba.
EN: Before they drop the bomb.
ES: Antes de lanzar la bomba.
EN: You break that perimeter, then we gotta drop the bomb.
ES: Si el perímetro se rompe tendremos que lanzar la bomba.

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