yesterday's fish and chips in English

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  "etymology_text": "Referring to the use of newspaper to wrap fish and chips.",
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        {
          "ref": "1975, JBIS: Journal of the British Interplanetary Society",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Steve Morris, In All Probability, page 74",
          "text": "However there was no way that this story was ever going to become “yesterday's fish and chips”. It just went on and on.",
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        "(colloquial) old news"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "yesterday's fish and chips"
}

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{
  "etymology_text": "Referring to the use of newspaper to wrap fish and chips.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "head": "yesterday's fish and chips"
      },
      "expansion": "yesterday's fish and chips (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Steve Morris, In All Probability, page 74",
          "text": "However there was no way that this story was ever going to become “yesterday's fish and chips”. It just went on and on.",
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      ],
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  "word": "yesterday's fish and chips"
}

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"yesterday's fish and chips" meaning in English

Noun