dirt file

dirt file

A list or record of one's failures, poor decisions, bad behavior, or other negative facts or rumors. The recent drug scandal is just another item on the governor's growing dirt file.
See also: dirt, file
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • at (one's) doorstep
  • at doorstep
  • at expense
  • at somebody's expense
  • at someone's expense
  • at (one's) expense
  • (one's) bark is worse than (one's) bite
  • (one's) day in court
  • at the end of (one's) fingertips
  • (from) top to toe
References in periodicals archive
Party sources were quoted saying a "scandal" in Joyce's private life and the existence of a "dirt file" were upsetting conservative voters.
Barnaby Joyce 'humbled' by resounding victory in New England byelection
But when people like Livingstone and Marceca are assembling "dirt files," they'll pull material in from the F.B.I., N.S.A., I.R.S., C.I.A., Pentagon, military intelligence, etc.
Those F.B.I. files