单词 | in the news |
释义 | > as lemmasin the news P4. in the news: being reported by the news media; (hence) currently exciting public interest or speculation. ΚΠ 1934 Discovery Jan. 14/1 That elusive creature the sea-serpent is again in the news, this time in the shape of the Loch Ness ‘monster’. 1958 W. Plomer At Home ix. 129 He was not at all of the kind of solitary..poets of the Romantic tradition, but an example of a twentieth-century kind that feel it necessary to be if not in the news at least not behind the times. 1972 C. Weston Poor, Poor Ophelia (1973) xxxii. 205 A lot of yak is in the news about the missing boot. 1996 Independent 10 Dec. ii. 11/3 Paracetamol, one of the most commonly popped pills in the world, is in the news again. < as lemmas |
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