warning shot
B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
A brief preparatory statement that alerts the patient that difficult or serious news is about to follow.
I gave a warning shot — 'I'm afraid the results are more serious than we'd hoped' — before explaining the biopsy findings.
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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