Linguaphilia
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I stumbled across this sentence while reading the news:
“news to them until informed recently by an Associated Press reporter.”
(from http://tinyurl.com/c2rz5s5)
As I’ve heard it, “news to them” would be used to denote the moment of learning information, not the time up until that moment.
Is this a common usage of the phrase “news to [someone]”, or is this a mixed metaphor of sorts, in which the writer may have meant “unbeknownst to them”? Is it a new usage?
Has anyone heard/used this construction before?
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