inside story
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inside story (plural inside stories)
The true state of affairs, known only to privileged insiders.
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It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.
Edwards, John, Keating: The Inside Story, Viking, 1996, p. 153 However, by 1982, his faction had swung behind Hawke, and Keating endorsed his challenge.
Both had helped Page with his autobiography Truant Surgeon: The Inside Story of Forty Years of Australian Political Life (Angus & Robertson, 1963).
Edwards, John, Keating: The Inside Story, Viking, 1996, p. 441 According to Edwards, "Hawke was unprepared to attack it and responded with windy rhetoric".
Edwards, John, Keating: The Inside Story, Viking, 1996, p. 159 Although Hayden survived the challenge, pressure continued to mount on him, and he eventually resigned in February 1983 after a poor by-election result.
In his book Rude Kids: The Inside Story of Viz, Chris Donald mentions that he was interviewed by police after giving the go-ahead to publish a Top Tip which could have been interpreted as an incitement to carry out a bomb plot.