Brewer's: Old News

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.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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