The phrase "a shocker from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce surprising or unexpected news or information, often in a sensational context.
Example: "The latest report was a shocker from the world of politics, revealing secrets that no one anticipated."
Alternatives: "a surprise from" or "an unexpected revelation from".
It's far from a shocker from Steve Davis, although it's undoubtedly the wrong decision.
What a shocker from men in the entertainment business, eh? Here's Dr Doug Ross gazing lovingly at Ben Affleck's beard.
It had been conceived as a shocker: from next Friday through Aug. 15, 31 naked men — or rather 31 slightly different sculptures of the same naked man, Mr. Gormley himself — will be perched on rooftops, standing on the grounds of Madison Square Park and dotting the sidewalks around the Flatiron district.
"Feng Yi Ting" is based on an ancient, historical tale — and something of a shocker, from a modern Western perspective — that describes political and sexual intrigue at the Han court, a few decades before that dynasty's end in the year 220.
This is a shocker from Seoul apparantly LG has gone all throw-back on us and reverted their name back to Lucky-Goldstar.
In one detour he invoked both Alfred Hitchcock and Sergei M. Eisenstein, whose influence can be seen in the still-stunning cut in "Bonnie and Clyde" to a man being shot in the face, a shocker borrowed from "The Battleship Potemkin".
(Dargis) 'Elysium' (R, 1 49) It's back to the dystopian future with "Elysium," a cautionary shocker from the director Neill Blomkamp about a Hobbesian war of all against all from which only Matt Damon can save us.
(Scott) 'Elysium' (R, 1 49) It's back to the dystopian future with "Elysium," a cautionary shocker from the director Neill Blomkamp about a Hobbesian war of all against all from which only Matt Damon can save us.
(Psst: It's people!) Heston may be gone, but the zombie hordes have kept coming, along with other new and unusual annihilating threats, and now it's back to the dystopian future with "Elysium," a cautionary shocker from the director Neill Blomkamp about a Hobbesian war of all against all from which only Matt Damon can save us.
Later, when Lou misses a story, and tries to compensate with a feeble shocker from the second tier ("I have the stabbing in Corona"), Nina explains, in her steeliest tones, what is required: "I want something people can't turn away from".
A big shocker from the NYT over this weekend.
