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Just finished Rough Ride by Paul Kimmage, sporting classic that blew the gaff on drugs in cycling.
We saw each other about four times, but one of my mates blew the gaff.
Sarah Briggs was so angry about the quality of the teaching at her school that she went to her local paper and blew the gaff.
Al Fayed blew the gaff on Tory MPs he paid to ask questions in Parliament.
But, even if the public were unaware of Calvin Klein's disco heyday, or of his visit to a clinic for drug and alcohol addiction in 1988, the publication of the unauthorised biography Obsession in 1994 blew the gaff on the squeaky clean image.
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