news for you
34
5.5
- idiom
- Informal
:
tengo noticias para ti
- Children, I have bad news for you.
- I've got news for you
- good news for you
- bad news for you
Well, my friends, I've got some good news for you. Well,
- Well, my friends, I've got some good news for you. Well,
- And then I have news, good news for you.
- Hey Drew, hi Jamona, I have some news for you.
- And if that's the case, then I have some good news for you today.
- And I've got some really amazing news for you guys.
- So I have good news and bad news for you guys.
- American Meat delivered a little breaking news for you.
- And today I, I might have some bad news for you guys.
- If you live in rural America, I've got news for you.
- I'm Bedros Coolian and today I've got bad news for you and I've got good news for you as well.
- I am a little bit sad today because I actually have good news, but I also have bad news for you and I think I'll start with the bad news.
Examples
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And we have some really good news for you today.
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Well, I have news for you.
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I have news for you and everyone else in here.
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But this is good news for you.
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I got some good news for you.
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I got news for you.
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"I have some good news for you," the detective said.
Fiction book (2000) -
I have some good news for you, Pumpkin.
Fiction book (2001) -
Well, I've got news for you.
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Hey, I have news for you: we just won the competition!
Synonyms
738
1.5
A public statement that gives important information
91
4.9
A phrase you say before telling surprising news
87
3.4
A short news message giving immediate information
60
4.1
A quick warning that something will happen
17
1.9
An important public message about news or plans
16
3.4
You use it when telling someone something they may not know, often politely or to show they were wrong
11
8.2
To tell someone surprising or important news, often with irony
11
3.1
A short, sudden announcement about important breaking news
11
2.9
A short announcement of the latest news on radio or TV
7
3.8
An event when something surprising and important is made known after waiting
6
7.0
Tell people to wait because something exciting will be revealed
How Surprising
- Informal
20
4.4
- Informal
34
5.5
- Informal
91
4.9
- Informal
448
1.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'news' = information, 'for' = intended recipient, and 'you' = the listener, so 'news for you' straightforwardly means information addressed to the listener. This recipient-marking pattern (X for Y) is cross-linguistically common and therefore will be clear to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
News for you comes from the image of a messenger bringing news in a letter marked for you, so the information feels personal and important. That's why people say news for you to announce something 'surprising' or likely to 'change' what you expected.