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DISH THE DIRT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies
Example:
She won't dish the dirt
Synonyms:
dish the dirt; gossip
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "dish the dirt" is one way to...):
speak; talk (exchange thoughts; talk with)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dish the dirt"):
bruit; rumor; rumour (tell or spread rumors)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
