Meanings
adjective
- idiomaticinformalBetraying 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.
1994, Linda Resnick, Kerry H. Pechter, A Big Splash in a Small Pond: Finding a Great Job in a Small Company, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 140
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