break it to

短语

词形变化

breaking it to breaks it to 三单 breaks it to broke it to broken it to breaking it to 现在分词 broke it to 过去式 broken it to 过去式 broken it to 过去分词

别名

break it break the news

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To deliver unfortunate or upsetting news to someone.

    习语

    Look, I hate to break it to you, but Tim doesn't want anything to do with you anymore.

    1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados Although I don't doubt that he'd have put much more faith in a local wizard if one had been available, he let us take the boy into the hospital tent and do what we could for him. It wasn't much, and I told my assistant to break it to poor old Calico that he must be prepared for the worst.