the gory details

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› the interesting and usually personal pieces of information about a person or event: Come on, I want to know all the gory details about your date with Jon.Information and messages

(Definition of the gory details from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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