Job's news

English

Alternative forms

Job's-news

Etymology

From the Biblical story in which many bad things happen to Job.

Noun

Job 's news (uncountable)

Very bad news.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (The Third Estate):
  What mystery is in the wind?—Hark! a human voice reporting articulately the Job’s-news: Necker, People’s Minister, Saviour of France, is dismissed.

Translations

bad news

Czech: Jobova zvěst f, jobovka (cs) f
Dutch: jobstijding (nl) f
German: Hiobsbotschaft (de) f
Polish: hiobowa wieść (pl) f
Swedish: jobspost (sv)

See also

poor as Job

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