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Tue 18 Dec, 2007 05:42 am
Some of the outraged hawks who want America to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities accuse the spies of sexing down their latest Iran dossier in order to make amends for having sexed up the one that led America into a war in Iraq.
Please explain: or does it mean bring something to a climax or anticlimax?
In the News Business, sex and blood, sell papers.
"Sexing an issue up" means making it more vivid, more glamorous, more likely to catch the attention of the reader (or viewer).
Facts justifying the invasion of Iraq as a wanna-be nuclear power were overstated--sexed up.
I may have sexed up the odd magazine in my youth, but I've never been attracted to dossiers I'm afraid.
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