Citations:hiss-and-tell

Adjective: "disclosing private information in a hostile manner"

 * 1981, Michele Slung, "She Lived to Write a Book", The Washington Post, 13 December 1981:
 * Former National Security Council head Zbigniew Brzezinski has had less luck placing his hiss-and-tell volume on the Carter years.
 * 1989, Laura Green, "The Washington years: A positive view from inside", Chicago Sun-Times, 23 April 1989:
 * But Miller's tale is as notable for what it isn't as for what it is. It is not a hiss-and-tell attempt to settle scores and mold history like Donald Regan's For the Record, a spin-doctored account of his time as President Reagan's chief of staff.
 * 1996, Ann Gerhart & Annie Groer, "The Reliable Source", The Washington Post, 10 October 1996:
 * The former hubby of Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's third -- and current -- wife is penning a hiss-and-tell book about their six-year union.
 * 1998, Rob Hughes, "Spoiled Soccer Fraternity Sets Poor Example: Hoddle Hiss-and-Tell Tells a Tale of Greed", The New York Times, 12 August 1998:
 * What is clear from this hiss-and-tell diary is that Hoddle feels immune to any downward glances, any disapproving charge from his bosses at the FA.
 * 2002, Stan Hochman, "John McEnroe's book provokes strong response from Tatum O'Neal", Philadelphia Daily News, 27 June 2002:
 * Maybe that's what this hiss-and-tell book is all about, therapy for McEnroe's battered psyche, a nightmare marriage, a splendid career best remembered for screeching on-court tantrums.
 * 2007, Liat Collins, "Hebrew Hear-Say: It's all relative", The Jerusalem Post, 22 November 2007:
 * There are songs about "imma yekara li" ("My dear mother" - sentimental fare, not the same thing at all as the Crawford hiss-and-tell movie and book "Mommie Dearest").
 * 2010, Alison Rowat, "The fatal attraction of life in the soaps", The Herald (Scotland), 10 July 2010:
 * That old tease Peter Mandelson knew what he was doing when he promised that his forthcoming hiss and tell memoir would delve into the "soap opera" that was New Labour.