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Old News

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Stale news. Hawker’s (or piper’s) news. “Le secret de polichinelle.”

A pinch for old news. A schoolboy’s punishment to one of his mates for telling as news what is well known.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Old Fogs
Old Fox
Old Gentleman (The)
Old Glory
Old Gooseberry
Old Grog
Old Hands
Old Harry
Old Humphrey
Old Mortality
Old News
Old Noll
Old Noll’s Fiddler
Old Port School
Old Reeky
Old Rowley
Old Salt (An)
Old Scratch
Old Song
Old Style—New Style
Old Tom