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gory details en · NOUN

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1. (figuratively, informal, plural, plural-only) All of the small facts or pieces of information about something, especially those that are excessively detailed or tedious.
2. (figuratively, informal, plural, plural-only) All of the pieces of information about something, especially those that are scandalous or embarrassing in nature.
   • It was ... my chance to dish and give all the gory details about the mommy-and-me yoga class. 2015, Lisa Wood Shapiro, Hot Mess Mom, Misadventures of New Motherhood:
3. (plural, plural-only) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gory, details.
   • When the newspapers reported the murder of Martha Tabram [...] with the gory details of how she had been stabbed, […] 2006, Robin Odell, Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer and a Literary Phenomenon, Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 169:

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warts and all · leave nothing to the imagination · tell-all · bare one's soul · bare all