If something is new and improved, we say it is the best thing since sliced bread.

VOA: special.2011.02.20

The first thing he did was buy a costly new car.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

And I think that was one of the things that made Nancy Drew special this was in the fifties or early sixties was that this girl survived by her wits and that was a new thing."

VOA: special.2009.08.24

MUSIC:"Sweet Thing" "Sweet Thing" was the first hit off Keith Urban's new album Defying Gravity.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19