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dish the dirt

  1. Spread gossip or scandal, as in Sally was notorious for dishing the dirt. [Slang; 1920s]



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And it's even more impossible when they dish the dirt on their ex themselves.

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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.

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That interview, shortly after McMaster was fired, rather nonplussed some in a Washington press corps eager to hear him dish the dirt on Trump.

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"For years afterwards, whenever something happened to me, the press would turn up on her doorstep, looking for her to dish the dirt" wrote Sir Elton in his autobiography, Me.

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A waiter named Hugo would sit down at the end of the night and dish the dirt.

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