Job's news
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the Biblical story in which many bad things happen to Job.
Noun[edit]
- Very bad news.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (The Third Estate):
- What mystery is in the wind?—Hark! a human voice reporting articulately the Job’s-news: Necker, People’s Minister, Saviour of France, is dismissed.
Translations[edit]
bad news
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