hit a desk
Frequency: 4.82.8 per million words
For news or a task to arrive suddenly.
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Examples (10)
- The urgent memo about the budget cuts hit my desk this morning.
- A major new assignment has just hit my desk, so I'll be busy all week.
- I expect the final report to hit the manager's desk by Friday.
- Bad news always seems to hit his desk right before a holiday.
- I was about to leave when this massive file hit my desk.
- News of the unexpected merger hit the editor's desk just before the paper went to print.
- The official complaint hit the CEO's desk and demanded immediate attention.
- A wave of new applications hit their desks after the job was advertised online.
- If another urgent task hits my desk today, I'm going to need more coffee.
- The moment the story broke, it hit every journalist's desk in the city.