Crossword clues for hit the headlines
hit the headlines
Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To appear prominently in the news, especially on the front page.
Usage examples of "hit the headlines".
Mter the Hoods hit the headlines, the insurance firms saw things a wee bit differently.
The case seemed hopeless but the name 'Delgardo' made sure it would hit the headlines.
The news that during these experiments White had succeeded in keeping the brain of a rhesus monkey alive for three days when separated from its body hit the headlines in specialist medical journals.
And before that it hit the headlines - well, anyway, the broadsheets - when Black Ned, a second-class highwayman, was shot on the steps of The Scythe and Stone Inn by Sweet Polly Parker, and although this gesture of reproof appears to have been of a more personal than social nature, she was, nevertheless, much lauded for it in the ballads of 1768.