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A kiss-and-tell story is one in which someone who had a romance — often with a famous person — later tells the public the private details: what was said, what happened behind closed doors, who was . Newspapers, magazines, and memoirs do this. The phrase is a little : the sting is that secrets are being sold, not that anyone kissed. You can use it as a noun (a kiss-and-tell) or as an adjective (a kiss-and-tell interview). Though actually, the “kiss” is a stand-in for the whole affair; the telling is the point, and it can be cold and .
爆料情史、揭人戀情隱私
組成A compound of kiss + and + tell: the romance, then the public telling.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
kiss-and-telladj
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informalBetraying a confidence by disclosing private information.
- Lewis wound up making a six-figure income in his first year as a bond trader and then became famous with his kiss-and-tell best-seller about the inner workings of a Wall Street bank at the height of the 1980s financial boom.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。