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Phrase(s): drop someone or something on someone or something
to release something so it falls on someone or something. • Poor Alice dropped an iron on her toe. • I accidentally dropped the baby on the floor., Phrase(s): drop something on someone
1. Lit. to let something fall on someone. • The bricklayer dropped some mortar on me. 2. Fig. to give someone some bad news. (As if dropping a burden on someone.) • Sally dropped some really bad news on Walter. • I’m sorry I had to drop it on you like that.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs