cross the wires

English

Verb

cross the wires (third-person singular simple present crosses the wires, present participle crossing the wires, simple past and past participle crossed the wires)

1. Of a news story: to break; to be published.
   • 2009, Laurence H. Meyer, A Term at the Fed: An Insider's View, page 16:

     He called me shortly after the story crossed the wires and cursed at me nonstop for minutes.