he-said-she-said

English

Noun

he-said-she-said (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of he said, she said
   • 2005 May, Bill McKibben, “Climate of Denial”, in Mother Jones‎^[1]:

     The tactic worked brilliantly; throughout the 1990s, even as other nations took action, the fossil fuel industry’s Global Climate Coalition managed to make American journalists treat the accelerating warming as a he-said-she-said story.

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