what's new (English, phrase)
expansion: what's new?
Senses:
glosses: An informal greeting asking the other person what has recently happened in their life. A typical response might be "Not much; you?". The greeting is not always literal and may just be used to say hello.
tags: informal
glosses: A rhetorical request for some real news, on hearing a report that was not news because it represents a continuing predictable and unsatisfactory situation.
tags: idiomatic
rhetoric
Forms: