spring on one

spring on one
{v. phr.} To approach someone unexpectedly with an unpleasant idea or project. * /Our firm was merely six weeks old when they sprang the news on me that I had to go to Algiers to open a new branch there./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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