By hand ➡️🖐️
Performed or made using human hands rather than a machine or automated process.
Printing & Publishing Idioms and Phrases 🖨️📖
Carbon copy ⚫🪞
An exact duplicate of something, especially a document created using carbon paper, or a person or thing that closely resembles another.
Devourer of books 🦷📚
An individual who reads a great many books quickly and with immense enthusiasm.
Go to press ➡️🖨️
To reach the final stage of preparation before a publication is physically printed and distributed.
Ink a deal ✍️📜
To formally finalize an agreement or contract by signing it.
Off the air 📴📡
Not currently broadcasting or transmitting, often referring to a radio or television station that has stopped its regular programming.
Out of print 🚪🔗📄
A book or publication is no longer being produced or sold by its publisher.
Paper trail 📄👣
A sequence of documents or records that provides evidence of an individual's or organization's activities and transactions.
Printer's ink in one's veins 🖨️✒️🩸
To have a deep, inherent passion and dedication for the newspaper, printing, or journalism profession.
Small print 🤏📄
The clauses, conditions, or disclaimers in a document that are less noticeable, often due to their small font size, but are legally binding and critically important.
To get into print 🦶📰
To have one's writing or work published, especially in a book, newspaper, or magazine.
Voracious reader 🍴📖
Someone who reads a great deal and with immense enthusiasm and speed.
Boost the signal 🚀📶
To amplify a message, idea, or piece of content so that it reaches a wider audience or gains more attention.
Chicken scratch 🐔🐾
Chicken scratch refers to handwriting that is messy, illegible, or difficult to read.
Churn out ⚙️📤
To produce something rapidly and in large quantities, often with an implication of mechanical effort or disregard for individual quality.
Fit to print 🔑📰
Suitable for publication in a newspaper or magazine, particularly because it is not offensive, scandalous, or otherwise inappropriate for general readership.
Fresh coat of linguistic paint 🌱🧥🗣️🎨
To give something a fresh coat of linguistic paint means to rephrase or update the language used to describe it, making it seem new, modern, or more appealing.
Get the word out 🤏💬📢
To widely communicate information or a message to a large number of people.
Hold the front page 🖐️👤📰
This exclamation is used to signal that a news story is so important or surprising that it demands immediate, prominent publication, often interrupting the usual printing schedule.
On the air 🔛💨
Currently being broadcast or transmitted, especially live, via radio or television.
Printer's devil 🖨️😈
A young apprentice in a printing house who performs menial tasks and is often covered in ink.
Publish and be damned 🖨️🔥
To publish or express something controversial, accepting any negative consequences or criticism that may follow.
Publish or perish 📖💀
The mandate for academics to continuously publish research and scholarly work to advance or retain their careers.
Put in print 👇➡️📰
To publish something, typically in a physical format such as a book, newspaper, or magazine.
Put it in writing 🖐️📝
To formally document an agreement, statement, or proposal on paper or electronically, making it official and verifiable.
Stop the presses! 🛑📰
This exclamation is used to demand an immediate halt to an ongoing activity or process due to a sudden, critical new development.
Take to the airwaves ✋🌬️🌊
To publicly broadcast a message, opinion, or information, typically through radio or television.
Telegraph your intentions
To make your future actions or plans obvious to others, often unintentionally.
Dusty tomes 💨📖
Old, large, and possibly important books that have not been read or opened for a long time.
For posterity 👨👩👧👦⏳
For the people who will live in the future.
Be writ large ✍️📏
To be clearly and obviously displayed or evident.
Hit the airwaves 💥📻
To begin broadcasting on radio or television.
A license to print money 📄💰
An easy and almost guaranteed way to make a lot of money, often with little effort or risk.
Off the shelf ➡️🛒
Readily available and not requiring special production or customization.
Don't bury the lede ❌👇📜
Get to the most important information first, rather than delaying it.
It's all there in black and white ⚫⚪📖
The information is presented very clearly and in writing, leaving no room for doubt or misinterpretation.
Broadcast it far and wide 📢🌍↔️
To widely publicize or spread information, news, or an event to a large audience across a broad area.
Put your stamp on it 👉🦻📝
To add your own unique character, style, or mark to something.
Putting pen to paper 🤏✍️
To begin writing something, especially a formal document or creative work.
The warp and woof 🧵🕸️
The essential elements or fundamental aspects of something.
A real page-turner 📖🔥🏃
A book or other document that is so exciting and interesting that you can't stop reading it.
Relegate to a footnote 🚶♀️⬇️📝
To assign a lesser importance or mention to something by placing it in a footnote.
Couldn't put it down 🚫📖✋
This phrase describes something so captivating or engaging that you are unable or unwilling to stop reading, watching, or doing it.
Hot off the press 🔥📰
Something new, especially news or information, that has just been printed or published.