| 单词 | hot off the press |
| 释义 | > as lemmashot off (also from) the press P8. hot off (also from) the press and variants: just printed, newly published; (hence) new, novel. Cf. sense A. 10b. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > [adverb] > newly printed hot off (also from) the press1804 the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > new [phrase] piping hot?1589 fresh (also new) off the irons1683 hot off (also from) the press1804 1804 J. Minshull Merry Dames ii. 18 Here is my pamphlet hot from the press. 1892 J. Davidson tr. C.-L. de S. de Montesquieu Persian Lett. II. cix. 71 They..never speak except of works hot from the press. 1910 S. P. Wilson Chicago by Gas Light 43 It is no uncommon sight to see the place crowded with men and women waiting for the ‘racing form’ to appear hot from the printing press. 1918 Puck (N.Y.) Mar. 83/3 Lippincott's new ones just hot off the presses this morning. 1955 Times 19 Aug. 2/5 But it is for novelties, hot from the press or the copyist's desk, that discontent is calling. 2005 Sugar May 90/2 The news that these thoroughbred A-listers exist isn't exactly hot off the press. < as lemmas |
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