English Dictionary

drop the bomb

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, bomb. / (idiomatic) to reveal dramatic and unexpected news that changes a situation completely

They drop the bomb on the enemy's headquarters.

意味（1）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, bomb.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) to reveal dramatic and unexpected news that changes a situation completely

A mere two months after the New Orleans hearings, the Supreme Court dropped the bomb that 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.