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Must be Am English. We have 'dish the dirt' over here (though that started life as an Americanism - I first heard it in the Pal Joey song 'That's why the lady is a tramp'); I suppose the progression was from 'dish the dirt about' to 'dish about'.
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PS 'It's most king of you'. Don't you mean "queen"?
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Re: To dish about
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Originally Posted by BobK
Must be Am English. We have 'dish the dirt' over here (though that started life as an Americanism - I first heard it in the Pal Joey song 'That's why the lady is a tramp'); I suppose the progression was from 'dish the dirt about' to 'dish about'.
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PS 'It's most king of you'. Don't you mean "queen"?
Could you give your idiom to me? And please, tell me whether I got to be wrong for "It's (the) most king of you".
I wouldn't call it "mine". The idiom 'dish the dirt', which we share with Am English, means "gossip". The line in that song was 'Don't ["She doesn't" - it's in a list of things the 'tramp' does] dish the dirt with the rest of the girls - That's why the lady is a tramp'. (It might as well have been in a foreign language when I first heard it - 'dish the dirt' 'tramp' )
(And pick away )
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