Whistle-blower
a person who tells someone in authority about something illegal that is happening,
especially in a government department or a company
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Silly season Cambridge Dictionary
noun [ U ]
mainly UK
the time of year, usually in the summer, when newspapers are full of stories that are not important because there is no important, especially political, news
US
a period of time when people do or say things that are not sensible or serious:
It’s the political silly season, and this policy is a very silly idea which seems more about public relations than solutions.
Definition of silly season from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
EXAMPLES of silly season
silly season
None of us gets too excited about such stories—the silly season seems to have started early.
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The unfortunate thing about the last few months is that the silly season has lasted so long.
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Perhaps, we may create a new silly season.
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For the moment, at any rate, the silly season is over.
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I know that in the “silly season” we read letters in the newspapers about discourteous shop assistants and that kind of thing.
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Everything that has been associated with that incident, including that question, persuades me that the silly season is starting somewhat earlier than usual.
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I recall that suggestion being made some years ago, but by the end of the silly season it seemed to have disappeared out of sight.
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Some short while ago, in the “silly season”, some newspapers started a popular opinion poll to discover what people thought was the most important thing in life.
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This is the silly season.
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However, elsewhere, the museum acknowledges that this was not a serious entry, and was inspired by the silly season.
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In many languages, the name for the silly season references cucumbers (more precisely: gherkins or pickled cucumbers).
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That silly season when everybody loves everybody else!
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