dig up dirt on (someone or something)
dig up dirt on (someone or something)
To uncover negative and potentially damaging information about someone or something. Once I contact my usual sources at the tabloids, I should be able to dig up dirt on that actress. He was thrown in jail for digging up dirt on the local government.
See also: dig, dirt, on, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- dig up dirt
- dig some dirt up
- dig the dirt
- grist for (one's) mill
- grist for the mill
- grist for the mill, that's
- grist for/to somebody's mill
- grist to (one's) mill
- shut somebody's mouth
- Shut your mouth!