dish the dirt
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And it's even more impossible when they dish the dirt on their ex themselves.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2023
But perhaps that’s not the remit, on a show for which the pair are engaged with a major streaming corporation to dish the dirt once more.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2022
Stars of The Hundred - including Jonny Bairstow, Kate Cross, and Tymal Mills - reveal some of their firsts, hot takes, confessions and also dish the dirt on their team-mates.
From BBC • Aug. 2, 2022
That interview, shortly after McMaster was fired, rather nonplussed some in a Washington press corps eager to hear him dish the dirt on Trump.
From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2020
People were queuing to dish the dirt on Dumbledore anyway.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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