what else is new
what else is new phrase: a rhetorical request for some real news, on hearing a report that was not news because it represents a continuing predictable and unsatisfactory situation.
Phrase
what else is new?
- A rhetorical request for some real news, on hearing a report that was not news because it represents a continuing predictable and unsatisfactory situation.
- My mum is still giving me grief for not getting a job. ― What else is new?
- Synonyms:
- what's new
Synonyms of what else is new
Questions about what else is new
- What does what else is new mean?
- What else is new means a rhetorical request for some real news, on hearing a report that was not news because it represents a continuing predictable and unsatisfactory situation.
- What part of speech is what else is new?
- What else is new is a phrase.
Words near what else is new in the dictionary
- what does that have to do with the price of corn
- what does that have to do with the price of fish
- what does that have to do with the price of tea in China
- what does … mean
- what doesn't kill you makes you stronger
- what else is new
- what foot the shoe is on
- what for
- what fors
- what gives
- what go round come round
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