go to press

go to press

To be printed or published. The star quarterback hadn't responded to our requests for a comment by the time today's paper went to press.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

go to press

[for a publication] to be sent to the printing presses. The book went to press last week. We expect finished books by the first of the month. The book you want to order hasn't even gone to press yet.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

go to press

To be submitted for printing.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
See also:
  • in press
  • press out
  • a good press
  • good press
  • press out of
  • press (something) out of (something else)
  • go to press with
  • go to press with (something)
  • be hot off the press
  • dead-tree press
References in periodicals archive
To go to press is to transfer the edited material to the printer.
Why Nairobi news is always prime, cleaner
The only candidate known to be in the running as we go to press is the Solomon R.
Venice Breach: Elizabeth Schambelan on the US pavilion at the Biennale
Martin's allowed a product to go to press without a closer look at the writing.
Chariots of the Damned: Helicopter Special Operations from Vietnam to Kosovo
As we just go to press, rumors have Bob Burnquist completing the loop in an enclosed pipe--not in a Hot Wheels track but by pumping a flume trucked into his Vista farm.
Euro style
Too many legislators have been willing to go along, with the result that (as we go to press) both House- and Senate-passed bills are now in a conference committee to be reconciled.
More entitlements
The invasion began as we started work on this issue and now, as we go to press, Bush is declaring the war in Iraq is over.
Note from the editor
As we go to press, some Democrats seem to be catching on to what's happening, but it remains to be seen whether or when the press and the public will wake up.
Tilting at windmills
As we go to press, the AIDS Treatment Activist Coalition is about to release an action alert on what you can do now, especially in August and September.
"Save ADAP" campaign starts August 12 -- what you can do now
The Senate passed its version of the 2002 Farm Bill in mid-February and, as we go to press, conferees are negotiating differences in the House and Senate versions.
Washington outlook