yesterday's fish and chips

English

Etymology

Referring to the use of newspaper to wrap fish and chips.

Noun

yesterday's fish and chips (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) old news
    • 1975, JBIS: Journal of the British Interplanetary Society:
      To begin with it has a powerful aroma of yesterday's fish and chips. The school was held well over four and one-half years ago […]
    • 2009, Steve Morris, In All Probability, page 74:
      However there was no way that this story was ever going to become “yesterday's fish and chips”. It just went on and on.
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