scandal sheet

scandal sheet

An inexpensive small-format newspaper (tabloid) that primarily focuses on sensationalist or scandalous stories and gossip. Don't get your news from scandal sheets—they make up half the stuff they put in there! The senator found himself on the cover of a scandal sheet after he was caught leaving a hotel room with someone who wasn't his wife.
See also: sheet
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

scandal sheet

n. a tabloid newspaper featuring lurid news. I like to read a scandal sheet every now and then.
See also: sheet
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • rag
  • a dog that'll bring a bone will carry a bone
  • crafty devil
  • hot tea
  • straws in your hair
  • have straws in (one's) hair
  • be on everyone's lips
  • cause (some) tongues to wag
  • cause tongues to wag
  • skanless
References in periodicals archive
Smith Goes to Washington," "Scandal Sheet," and the British "Defense of the Realm."
TRALEE: 3.30 Roman Empress, 4.00 Signal Fire, 4.35 Scandal Sheet, 5.05 Jack Olcott, 5.35 Hotspur, 6.05 Nice Style, 6.35 Shamiran.
Please don't reduce your magazine to the level of a scandal sheet with such gratuitous personal attacks.
However, he is outdanced by Paul Robinson as Mike, who is far more convincing as a hoofer than as a cynical reporter compromising his principles by slumming it on a scandal sheet.
Cronkite said he no longer watches CBS Evening News on a regular basis because 'there is nothing there but crime and sob sister material that is scandal sheet and tabloid material for the most part." Fenton deplores the amount of money (in the millions) paid to those "at the top." He blames former ABC News president Roone Arledge, who changed the entire equation by offering Barbara Waiters $1,000,000 a year.
These jobs informed his next creation, a newspaper called the Auburndale Scandal Sheet (A.S.S.
And, yes, that includes some items that would not be out of place in a scandal sheet, details of a 17th century manorial prison and, more sensationally, a bed-hopping scandal at Lower Denby that ended in divorce, 1822-style.
And Mike should know because his column - All The Gossip - appears in scandal sheet The National Enquirer and is read by 20 MILLION Americans each week.
``The book is really a scandal sheet mas-querading as a book.'' McGilligan, stood by his book, Clint: The Lifeand Legend.
Our first MBA president declares, "The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet." But like Congress on financial management, Catholic priests on sexual morality, or Jimmy Carter on military tactics, George W.
extremist, Republican/Chinese Communist-pandering scandal sheet, is now
The flyer also features this powerful testimonial from the copy chief at the National Geographic Society: "Finally: a direct response publication that's not a puff piece or scandal sheet. Our creative staff fights over every issue."
Hacking away at some legends and then hastily constructing others, Biskind's book is a self-conscious feather-ruffler, a scandal sheet in which film and sex and ego and drugs keep colliding and recombining.
This produces scoops for the scandal sheet and enhances Jack's prestige as adviser to the TV police drama "Badge of Honor."