bearer of bad news

Literally, someone who delivers bad news. The bearer often identifies himself or herself as such as an introductory warning that he or she has bad news to deliver. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I'm afraid your grandfather passed away late last night. We were celebrating our teacher's absence until Susie, the bearer of bad news, told us that the principal was coming to give us our exam.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Yehiel	-	Hebrew
Kamakshi	-	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi
Atterbury	['ætəbəri]
Adam	A-dəm (English), a-DAWN (French), AH-dahm (German, Polish), AH:-dahm (Dutch), ah-DAHM (Russian, Ukrainian)	English, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Ukrainia
NadİRe	-	Turkish
Viking	VEE-king (Swedish), VEE-keeng (Finnish)	Swedish, Finnish