Idiom: Hot off the press
Whenever a new post is published here at ArtisanEnglish.jp, I send a notice.
The notice lets everyone who applied to receive them know that a new post is available hot off the press.
That is your idiom for the day, folks – hot off the press.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a newspaper junky.
That’s right; I love news.
To go off on a tangent here, I recently started following a new news website called The Colorado Sun.
Its website went live on September 10th, and I’ve been a subscriber to their newsletter since before then.
There’s a lot of shrinkage in the newspaper world, so I’m happy to see a newspaper startup.
Even though I know nothing about Colorado, I’ll know much more after reading this paper for a few months.
It’s quite fitting for me to be able to introduce the phrase hot off the press today because it is related to the newspaper industry and newspaper printing.
Anything that is newly printed, published or just new and exciting in general can be referred to as hot off the press.
The expression comes from the old hot metal printing process.
Molten lead was poured to make the printing block which was then used to print on paper.
If the block was still hot when the printed pages came out of the printing machine, they were hot off the press.
My daily posts are hot off the press, and daily news stories are hot off the press too.
Yes, we can still use the phrase even though no printing is involved.
Many idioms began as a reference to a real thing and then developed into an idiom.
Kick the bucket, saved by the bell and hot off the press are just a few examples.
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