"drop a bombshell" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2000, Dan McCaffery, Tommy Burns: Canada's Unknown World Heavyweight Champion, page 135:",
          "text": "When the two men got together to discuss contract arrangements, the challenger dropped a bombshell.\n\"If you lie down you can have the whole purse — $10,000,\" O'Brien told him.²³",
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          "text": "John and Rick were knee-deep in pre-production when the client dropped a bombshell: Both of the tax services spots had been killed, but they still needed to air something in the same time frame.",
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          "ref": "2009, Marion Brown III, The Worst Part of Me, page 116:",
          "text": "\"Yeah, you are my baby's daddy. Well I have to leave, but we'll be in touch.\"\nAsia dropped a piece of paper on my desk and walked out the door with a huge smile on her face.[…]How could Asia just come in and drop a bombshell and then walk out like there was nothing to it?",
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        "(idiomatic) To announce surprising or alarming information suddenly and without warning."
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          "sense": "to announce surprising information without warning",
          "word": "eine Bombe platzen lassen"
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