bad news

"I am the bearer of bad news, gentlemen," he said, addressing them both.

You didn't on the dock, you know, when you got the bad news.

If it's bad news I don't want to hear it, and if it's good I can wait, I cal'late.

Why, she came to see us after the news came—the bad news—and she was so kind and so good.

Thus, discreetly, did the man of law break the bad news he bore.

If bad news is coming, I will not pay it the compliment of going to meet it.

I 'm sorry for it, for you have need of all your firmness; bad news has come from America.

"This is bad news, Glengariff," said he, with a sickly effort at a smile.

I could have broken the bad news to him, perhaps, better than—I mean—oh, dear!

“I am sorry to say there is bad news from Cullerne,” the architect said hurriedly.