gory detail
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- noun
- /ˈɡɔːri dɪˈteɪl/
- NSFW
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detalle sangriento
- And I'll spare you all the gory details, but basically it involved an upperclassman, too much booze, and some internal bleeding.
- hear the gory details
- get the gory details
- spare me the gory details
But the sensors on those drones, the video cameras have advanced significantly, and you can zoom right in and see all the gory details.
- But the sensors on those drones, the video cameras have advanced significantly, and you can zoom right in and see all the gory details.
Examples
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I want all the gory details.
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Without going into all the gory details, my husband and I have separate accounts.
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Let me write it out in its gory detail, because we're going to use this quite a bit.
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Just give me the gory details.
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Does he know all the gory details, darling?
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So you want me to tell you a bunch of gory details, is that it?
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I want to hear all the gory details about you and Steve last night.
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Check the source for all the gory details.
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Today's news reported more gory details of the killing of a young man in Berlin.
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The crime scene was covered in gory detail that shocked everyone who saw the photographs.
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Morphology
The adjective 'gory' (bloody, violent) directly modifies 'detail' (a specific fact), so the combined meaning 'a graphic or violent specific fact' is transparently derived from the constituents. This simple adjective+noun composition follows regular English patterns and is likely obvious to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Gory detail may come from the word gory, which means 'blood' and violent scenes, and detail, meaning a small part of a story. The image is of someone naming every bloody part, so the phrase now means a very clear, often shocking description of violence.