got news for you
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8.2
- idiom
- Informal
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- Have I got news for you!
- Hey, I got news for you
- Well, I got news for you
- got news for you, pal
Examples
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I've got news for you.
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Well, I got news for you.
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Girl, have I got news for you.
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Yeah, well, I got news for ya.
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I got news for you guys.
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I got news for you.
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And I got news for ya.
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I got news for you, Mr. Brown.
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Hey, I got news for you, buddy.
Blog text (1) -
Hey, I've got news for you: the meeting is canceled!
Synonyms
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4.9
A phrase you say before telling surprising news
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5.5
To tell someone something surprising that may change what they expect
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3.4
You use it when telling someone something they may not know, often politely or to show they were wrong
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3.1
A short, sudden announcement about important breaking news
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The core meaning 'I have information for you' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'got' (have/possess) + 'news' (information) + 'for you' (recipient), a straightforward possession/recipient construction that is cross-linguistically common. While pragmatic flavours (surprise, emphasis, or irony) may require more discourse exposure, the basic propositional meaning would be clear to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Got news for you may come from the simple image of someone stopping you to hand over a note or shout that they have news for you, ready to change what you thought. That's why we use got news for you to introduce something 'surprising' or to say it with a sharp, 'ironic' tone.