be hot off the press

1. To be freshly printed, as of a periodical. The latest edition of the student newspaper is hot off the press, and my class is going to distribute it at lunch. Back in my day, you could tell when a newspaper was hot off the press because it was actually still hot! The March issue is hot off of the press, but it has a bunch of formatting issues. Who's going to tell the boss?

2. To be a newly circulating bit of news or gossip. Did you hear that Mara dumped Jim? It's hot off the press! Hey, it's hot off the press—Greg got the promotion over Paul. Claudia got kicked off the cheerleading squad? Wow, that must be hot off the press because this is the first I'm hearing about it.