drop a bombshell
drop a bomb AmE

On just the second day of the trial he dropped a bombshell.

The Shadow decided to drop a bombshell before one came his own way.

A few minutes into the conversation, Sanders dropped a bombshell.

"Drop a bombshell on my head, then take off for Ireland?"

Then, in the way only my mother can drop a bombshell, she asked casually, "What took you so long?"

The relationship seems to be going great, until one day Tanya drops a bombshell.

Emma kept running as if she hadn't just dropped a bombshell.

During the conversation, one of them would drop a bombshell to which the other player had to react.

But the company dropped a bombshell yesterday when it announced that the program would not be available for six to nine months.

The room was quiet for a moment and then Danny, grinning, dropped a bombshell.

I don't think Duncan realized he was dropping a bombshell.

But then she dropped a bombshell: she knew his secret.

You can't just drop a bombshell like that on us and then run off to hide inside yourself!

Then, out of the blue, Ken dropped a bombshell.

We were all set to go, but at this point the District Council dropped a bombshell.

Without any warning of a change in the conversation Isabelle suddenly dropped a bombshell.

Then he dropped a bombshell: he planned to buy Sears.

Then the bank, Thailand's second largest, dropped a bombshell that sent its stock tumbling by more than a third.

Then in a quiet voice Himmler dropped a bombshell.

Things rolled along pretty nicely for a year until out of the blue Lesley dropped a bombshell.

Then, one day in May, Kathleen dropped a bombshell.

Before he left, Harrison dropped a bombshell.

At 10 p.m., my daughter dropped a bombshell: a high school science report had to be printed.

He comes in and drops a bombshell.

But while they were there Farash dropped a bombshell.

At least no one's going to drop a bomb on me.

So they dropped a bomb on the house from a helicopter.

He might as well have dropped a bomb on them, they looked so startled!

"If it had dropped a bomb, the screen would have gone red."

And somebody says, Oh they've dropped a bomb on the tunnel.

The B-36 never dropped a bomb or fired a shot in active service.

Why not just drop a bomb on this meeting and be done with it?"

"At the same time, an Ethiopian plane would not have dropped a bomb."

Then one of the two helicopters drops a bomb and they fly off.

We heard this loud explosion, like somebody dropped a bomb.

This time it was my landlady's turn to drop a bomb.

The police dropped a bomb on the house, starting a fire which burned down 62 houses and killed 11 people.

What would you do, Bill, drop a bomb on him?"

Short of dropping a bomb, what can I do?

Olson is known for being able to drop a bomb anywhere under any condition.

The telephone rang, dropping a bomb on her train of thought.

It is also applied for training the act of dropping a bomb with explosives.

"How much more directly can the residents be affected unless the district dropped a bomb on them?"

The pilots dropped a bomb on the insurgents, killing all of them, the military said.

"How many black guys have dropped a bomb on Hiroshima?

"We're dropping a bomb a minute over there," he said.

Flying machines, which can go to a spot two hundred miles away, drop a Bomb and return!

An Israeli plane then dropped a bomb, destroying the post.

On that one, just to write his signature real clear and plain for everybody to read, he dropped a bomb.

Midnight to six in the Temple, and you could drop a bomb outside the door without disturbing anyone inside.