gory details, the
the gory details
The specific (perhaps lurid, explicit, or gritty) details in an account of something. Stacy went to Kim's party, and she better give us the gory details.
See also: detail, gory
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
the gory details
the explicit details of something. 1988 David Carpenter God's Bedfellows She starts telling me some of the gory details…it was cancer…and everybody knew he was dying.
See also: detail, gory
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
gory details, the
Unpleasant particulars. The word gore, from Old English and German words meaning blood that had been shed and clotted, came to denote, by extension, murder, bloodshed, and other kinds of violence. It was so used by Dickens in Barnaby Rudge (1841), “Something will come of this. I hope it mayn’t be human gore.” Literally, therefore, gory details means “bloody details,” but despite violence being by no means obsolete, the term has been transferred to mean the unpleasant particulars of just about anything, ranging from a business transaction to a divorce. It is also used ironically for any details, whether pleasant or not.
See also: gory
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- gory
- the gory details
- paint (something) with a broad brush
- paint something with a broad brush
- nitty-gritty
- nitty-gritty, the
- the nitty-gritty
- throw a little light on (something)
- throw a lot of light on (something)
- currency