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missdaredevil

Joined: 08 Dec 2004
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:17 am Post subject: bearer

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.... Is that like, "Sorry I have a bad news for you..."? THanks

bud

Joined: 09 Mar 2003
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Location: New Jersey, US

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:29 pm Post subject:

Yes.

LucentShade

Joined: 30 Dec 2003
Posts: 542
Location: Nebraska, USA

Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 4:01 pm Post subject: Re: bearer

missdaredevil wrote:

Sorry to be the *bearer* of bad news....

Is that like, "Sorry I have a bad news for you..."?

THanks

"bear," as a verb, has several meanings, and one of them is "to hold" like in this sentence. One thing I wanted to point out: you can say "Sorry, I have bad news for you" without the article "a," or say "some bad news." "News" is considered plural, meaning "pieces of information."

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