- 1爆料情史、揭人戀情隱私
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 .
「kiss-and-tell」指曾經談過戀愛的人，之後把私密細節說給大眾聽，例如說過什麼、關起門來發生什麼，或誰對誰不好。報紙、雜誌和回憶錄都常見這種內容。它可以當形容詞，例如「a kiss-and-tell interview」（爆料式的訪談），也可以當名詞用。
這個詞帶著不以為然的語氣，重點不在於有過親吻，而在於把隱私拿來賣。kiss 只是代表整段感情，說出來才是重點，而且說的人常態度冷淡，像在做生意。
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，摘錄並精簡格式，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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。