Citations:hiss-and-tell

English citations of hiss-and-tell and hiss and tell

Adjective: "disclosing private information in a hostile manner"

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• 1981, Michele Slung, "She Lived to Write a Book", The Washington Post, 13 December 1981:

  Former National Security Council head Zbigniew Brzezinski has had less luck placing his hiss-and-tell volume on the Carter years.

• 1989, Laura Green, "The Washington years: A positive view from inside", Chicago Sun-Times, 23 April 1989:

  But Miller's tale is as notable for what it isn't as for what it is. It is not a hiss-and-tell attempt to settle scores and mold history like Donald Regan's For the Record, a spin-doctored account of his time as President Reagan's chief of staff.

• 1996, Ann Gerhart & Annie Groer, "The Reliable Source", The Washington Post, 10 October 1996:

  The former hubby of Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's third -- and current -- wife is penning a hiss-and-tell book about their six-year union.

• 1998, Rob Hughes, "Spoiled Soccer Fraternity Sets Poor Example: Hoddle Hiss-and-Tell Tells a Tale of Greed", The New York Times, 12 August 1998:

  What is clear from this hiss-and-tell diary is that Hoddle feels immune to any downward glances, any disapproving charge from his bosses at the FA.

• 2002, Stan Hochman, "John McEnroe's book provokes strong response from Tatum O'Neal", Philadelphia Daily News, 27 June 2002:

  Maybe that's what this hiss-and-tell book is all about, therapy for McEnroe's battered psyche, a nightmare marriage, a splendid career best remembered for screeching on-court tantrums.

• 2007, Liat Collins, "Hebrew Hear-Say: It's all relative", The Jerusalem Post, 22 November 2007:

  There are songs about "imma yekara li" ("My dear mother" - sentimental fare, not the same thing at all as the Crawford hiss-and-tell movie and book "Mommie Dearest").

• 2010, Alison Rowat, "The fatal attraction of life in the soaps", The Herald (Scotland), 10 July 2010:

  That old tease Peter Mandelson knew what he was doing when he promised that his forthcoming hiss and tell memoir would delve into the "soap opera" that was New Labour.