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yesterday's fish and chips

yesterday's fish and chips noun: old news.

Noun

yesterday's fish and chips (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) Old news.
    • 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 […]1975, JBIS: Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
    • However there was no way that this story was ever going to become “yesterday's fish and chips”. It just went on and on.2009, Steve Morris, In All Probability, page 74

Origin of yesterday's fish and chips

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

Questions about yesterday's fish and chips

What does yesterday's fish and chips mean?
Yesterday's fish and chips means old news.
What part of speech is yesterday's fish and chips?
Yesterday's fish and chips is a noun.

Words near yesterday's fish and chips in the dictionary

  1. yesterday but one
  2. yesterday is gone
  3. Yesterday Island
  4. yesterday night
  5. yesterday's
  6. yesterday's fish and chips
  7. yesterday's gone
  8. yesterday's news
  9. yesterday-today-and-tomorrow
  10. yesterday-today-and-tomorrows
  11. yesterday-today-tomorrow

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