| 单词 | slow news day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslow news day P3. slow news day and variants: a specified period of time in which there are few events of sufficient interest to be worth mentioning in the news, and hence characterized by coverage of irrelevant or frivolous matters. ΚΠ 1895 Daily Banner Times (Greencastle, Indiana) 22 June These are some fables..that our contemporary might rake up for a slow news day. 1969 Lafayette (Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.) 3 Oct. 5/1 The headlines for the story undoubtedly reflect that this was a slow news week. 1979 Punch 15 Aug. 237/2 Whenever it is a slow news period—and traditionally there is none more snail-paced than August—the more racy Sunday newspapers rediscover such hoary old favourites as vice rings. 2014 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 22 Apr. a14 A 'field guide' to Easter Bunnies in Edmonton mall on the front page of your august Journal? Wow, it must have been a slow news day. < as lemmas |
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