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dish the dirt (on

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dish the dirt (on somebody/something)

to talk about other people without worrying about being truthful E-mail us and dish the dirt on anyone – husbands, kids, whoever. Did you know that now astronauts can dish the dirt from space?

Related vocabulary: dish out something

Etymology: based on the phrase dish out food (to serve food ) and dirt (negative information about a person)

See also: dirt, dish