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Make something known, as in We suspected that she was pregnant but waited for her to break the news to her in-laws . This term, in slightly different form ( break a matter or break a business ), dates from the early 1500s. Another variant is the 20th-century journalistic phrase, break a story , meaning “to reveal a news item or make it available for publication.”

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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