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spill the beans
Idioms and Phrases
Disclose a secret or reveal something prematurely, as in You can count on little Carol to spill the beans about the surprise . In this colloquial expression, first recorded in 1919, spill means 鈥渄ivulge,鈥 a usage dating from the 1500s.Example Sentences
And Hegseth used his personal phone this time to spill the beans.
On Friday morning, he circled back to raise doubts about the suggestion that Musk would 鈥渟pill the beans鈥 to China because of his business interests.
They can feign respect for Trump and prevent their media from spilling the beans.
Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said the sausage made the trip with the team, but wouldn鈥檛 spill the beans on how the well-traveled piece of meat made it over the border into Canada.
On Saturday, her pal, YouTube star Tana Mongeau appeared to spill the beans on the baby鈥檚 arrival before Cummings could, sharing an Instagram story featuring the postpartum mom.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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