sex, lies and videotape

noun

The controversy surrounding a political scandal.

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nounsex, lies and videotape pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyThe controversy surrounding a political scandal.

    Today, choosing a president seems to have more to do with sex, lies and videotape.

    1992, John Laschinger, Geoffrey Stevens, Leaders & lesser mortals: backroom politics in Canada, Key Porter Books, page 123
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    Thus, Chetan Anand is described as "the biggest taker and sponger I met in my life": another blurb reads, "Sex, lies and videotape, the story of I.S. Johar's life"...

    1995, India today, Volume 22, Aroon Purie for Living Media India Ltd., page #111

    It is not "sex, lies and videotape" but the drama of CAD, cost and cycle time that is generating a revolution in the business of design.

    1998, Nino S. Levy, Managing high technology and innovation, Prentice Hall, page 105

    "Inquiring minds want to know. Give 'em what they deserve. Sex, lies and videotape."

    2002, Mack Mangham, Things Left Undone, iUniverse, page 155

    Whatever the media promote and the chorus chants, whatever dapples dinner tables, this is not a mundane story of sex, lies and videotape.

    2008, Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard, What moves at the margin: selected nonfiction, Univ. Press of Mississippi, page 151
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