break it to
English
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Verb
break it to (third-person singular simple present breaks it to, present participle breaking it to, simple past broke it to, past participle broken it to)
- (idiomatic) To deliver unfortunate or upsetting news to someone.
- Look, I hate to break it to you, but Tim doesn't want anything to do with you anymore.
- 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
- [Spoken by a shopkeeper] Hmmm... Hate to break this to you, but you don't have enough money.
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