tittle-tattle

Related to tittle-tattle: gossipy

tittle-tattle

Gossip. I know you think all that tittle-tattle is harmless, but one of these days a rumor is going to hurt someone.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • run someone out of town
  • save someone's skin
  • going to tattle
  • do someone or something justice
  • out of one's
  • (I've) got to go
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • golden shower
References in periodicals archive
But for me there is a big difference between having your own opinion and repeating tittle-tattle and following the crowd.
A blast from the boss is just what players need
Tittle-tattle, however, has survived and is alive and well even in the 21st century.
As everyone knows the rhyme goes unnoticed in prose
It's not nice; no supporter wants to see his club's dirty linen washed in public - but everyone else loves the tittle-tattle and the gossip.
ANOTHER PLAYER IN OVER HIS HEAD
Tittle-tattle about the sex lives of celebrities may be titivating to the public but, in the main, is not in the public interest and should only be printed if obtained by legal methods, but we didn't need the vast expense to the public purse to introduce such sensible restraint by the press.
Hacked off by the cost of the inquiry
His 24 years in cricket are conspicuous by the absence of any scandal or tittle-tattle. He simply let his bat speak for him.
Real maturity
Responsibility, libel laws and the fact the entire future of the free press hangs in the balance already prevents me from any such tittle-tattle. But here's a thought, quite apart from the fact there are many other hotels close to the National Assembly which cost quite a bit less than the opulent St David's.
Are we paying for AMs to stay in the city so they can enjoy a night out?
She also looks at the work's unending appeal and rejects the scurrilous and unfounded literary tittle-tattle about Barrie whom she describes as a man characterised by Move, affection, generosity, and imagination', a man who used his wealth to help others, notably the Great Ormond Street hospital.
The Annotated
GARY Barlow really plumbed the depths with his cutting comments to Misha B that she couldn''t win because of previous media tittle-tattle.
Shame on you Barlow; Your shout
Leigh said he hacked into private voicemails to expose "bribery and corruption," not for "witless tittle-tattle."
British phone hacking scandal deepens with Guardian journalist admitting to crime
McPhail, 31, admits he has been shocked by tittle-tattle about his health after missing Cardiff's pre-season games, insisting that the cancer which struck him two years ago is now "well out of my mind."
McPhail can't wait for action
The gossip and tittle-tattle of Westminster is irrelevant to most people's lives."
Miliband dismisses talk of rift
ED Miliband dismissed the latest criticisms of his leadership as "Westminster tittle-tattle" yesterday as he promised to make Labour the party of society's "grafters".
We must be the party of grafters; EMBATTLED LABOUR LEADER HITS BACK
A SOCIAL worker failed to act on concerns about a Huddersfield toddler a week before she was murdered because she believed it was "tittle-tattle", a conduct hearing was told.
Social worker failed to act as toddler abused
As chief executive he was under enormous pressure and from what I heard - and it may have been tittle-tattle - was not the most popular man there.
What industry figures are saying