break the news gently
A2CEFR level
10/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister
To tell someone distressing information in a careful and compassionate way.
I took the daughter aside to break the news gently before she saw her father.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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