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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