sex, lies and videotape

sex, lies and videotape noun: the controversy surrounding a political scandal.

Noun

sex, lies and videotape pl (plural only)

(plural, plural-only) The controversy surrounding a political scandal.
- Today, choosing a president seems to have more to do with sex, lies and videotape.1992, John Laschinger, Geoffrey Stevens, Leaders & lesser mortals: backroom politics in Canada, Key Porter Books, page 123
- Thus, Chetan Anand is described as "the biggest taker and sponger I met in my life": another blurb reads, "Sex, lies and videotape, the story of I.S. Johar's life"...1995, India today, Volume 22, Aroon Purie for Living Media India Ltd., page #111

It is not "sex, lies and videotape" but the drama of CAD, cost and cycle time that is generating a revolution in the business of design.1998, Nino S. Levy, Managing high technology and innovation, Prentice Hall, page 105:
Whatever the media promote and the chorus chants, whatever dapples dinner tables, this is not a mundane story of sex, lies and videotape.2008, Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard, What moves at the margin: selected nonfiction, Univ. Press of Mississippi, page 151:

What does sex, lies and videotape mean?: Sex, lies and videotape means the controversy surrounding a political scandal.
How do you use sex, lies and videotape in a sentence?: It is not "sex, lies and videotape" but the drama of CAD, cost and cycle time that is generating a revolution in the business of design.
What part of speech is sex, lies and videotape?: Sex, lies and videotape is a noun.

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