Stop the presses!

Stop the presses!

Stop! Hold everything! Stop the presses! The president's daughter has been kidnapped! Everyone, stop the presses—there's something I need to tell you.
See also: stop
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Stop the presses! Hold everything!

Back in the days when newspapers were a more important and timely source of national and international happenings than they now are, their publishers made every effort to update news articles, even if it meant halting the printing process for a piece to be added or rewritten. When that happened, the cry “stop the presses” was heard, and the presses ground to a halt in mid-issue. You didn't have to be Perry White or Citizen Kane to shout “stop the presses!” All you had to do was mean you were about to say something of importance or, when meant sarcastically, to indicate that another person's statement was old news.
See also: hold, stop
Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price
See also:
  • Stop the presses! Hold everything!
  • stop the music
  • Stop the music!
  • Stop the music! Hold everything!
  • stop sleeping on (someone or something)
  • scare (one) away from (something)
  • get off (one's) high horse
  • get off high horse
  • ride on
  • ride on (something)
References in periodicals archive
Stop the presses! NH's senior senator endorses Hill.
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STOP the presses! .Alarming reports this week suggest that the world is running out of chocolate!!
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Stop the presses! I want to get off!; a brief history of the Prisoners' Digest International.
Stop the presses! I want to get off!; a brief history of the Prisoners' Digest International
Stop the presses! Could Chantelle Houghton and Alex Reid get any more cringy?
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In the world of science journalism, rarely does any news evoke the desire to scream "Stop the presses!"
Don't stop presses yet for faster-than-light neutrinos
Stop the Presses! The Tea & Coffee World Cup is changing venues from Madrid, Spain to Seville, Spain on June 7-9, 2009 at the FIBES Exhibition and Convention Centre.
Tea & Coffee World Cup: moves to Seville, Spain
STOP the presses! Harley-Davidson have finally made a motorcycle that goes round corners and is fun to ride with gusto.
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Stop the Presses! Joseph Farah WND Books c/o Midpoint Trade Books 27 West 20th Street, Suite 1102, New York, NY 10011 9780979045103, $25.95 www.worldnetdaily.com
Stop the Presses!
Stop the presses! That may be a great line in the movies, but in the real world of newspaper publishing, stopping the presses is a disaster.
Automation made simple: automated palletizing and stretch wrapping reduces labor and increases flexibility at a European printing plant
When someone yells "Stop the presses!" we all know what is meant.
Lost in space? The news media haven't covered the shuttle program very well. (Top of the Review)
Stop the presses! And he writes that fire stations in the populated areas moved their engines outdoors.
Not the big one yet, rookie
In sum, editors and publishers don't need to know how to operate a press -- but they definitely need to know the difference between a split and collect run, which pages can and cannot take process color, and what it really means in terms of production when somebody yells, "Stop the presses! Stop the presses!" (It means that person is probably about to get fired.)
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One revision actually read: "This updated news release reflects the removal of a clause in the fourth sentence of the release date March 12." Hey, stop the presses!
The biggest and the best
STOP the presses! There is a worldwide kindness movement taking place to encourage random acts of kindness and "kindness challenges" such as planting a flower in someone's garden under the cover of darkness or paying someone else's parking!
Night-time planting but I'm not going to the darkside!