Italian term
dossieraggio
Is there any fancy way of saying dossieraggio in English? I don't know if there has been any similar case in the UK or USA.
Thanks in advance.
3 | secret dossiers | James (Jim) Davis |
4 +1 | telecomgate (or telegate) | Lara Barnett |
3 | mudslinging | darwilliam |
Apr 8, 2011 13:47: Ingo Dierkschnieder changed "Language pair" from "German to English" to "Italian to English"
Proposed translations
secret dossiers
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Note added at 1 hr (2011-04-08 15:38:56 GMT)
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OOpps , "the case of the illegal secret dossiers"
mudslinging
telecomgate (or telegate)
This Wikipedia article gives a list of +gate affairs that have been "coined" since this original 70's one:
"The suffix -gate derives from the Watergate scandal of the United States in the early 1970s, which resulted in the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon.................
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Baftagate
Closetgate
Kanyegate
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Tigergate
Toiletgate
Tripgate
......etc etc"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_with_"-gate"_s...
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"The Telecomgate file"
OR
"The file containing the Telecomgate scandal"
"A week after my colleague James Delingpole , on his Telegraph blog, coined the term "CLIMATEGATE" to describe the scandal revealed by the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, Google was showing that the word now ..."
"The "ANGOLAGATE" affair saw Pasqua, 83, receive a one-year jail term with two years suspended, in a scandal in which he implicated several top political figures including Jacques Chirac, French president at the time of the affair..."
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Fabrizio Zambuto
: i like Telecom-gate, I would just add Italian telecom-gate as it appears they had one in India too:) http://www.timesnow.tv/PM-dragged-into-Telecomgate/articlesh...
1 day 14 hrs
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Thank you.
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