let the cat out of the bag Идиома

let the cat out of the bag

tell people, the cat's out of the bag People know we plan to elope. Who let the cat out of the bag?

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v. phr., informal To tell about something that is supposed to be a secret. We wanted to surprise Mary with a birthday gift, but Allen let the cat out of the bag by asking her what she would like.

Sometimes used in another form. Well, the cat is out of the bag everybody knows about their marriage.
Compare: GIVE AWAY³, LET OUT², SPILL THE BEANS.

let the cat out of the bag

To acknowledge a secret. How did Mom acquisition out we were planning a abruptness affair for her? Who let the cat out of the bag?Learn more: bag, cat, let, of, out

let the cat out of the bag

Fig. to acknowledge a abstruse or a abruptness by accident. When Bill glanced at the door, he let the cat out of the bag. We knew again that he was assured addition to arrive. It's a secret. Try not to let the cat out of the bag.Learn more: bag, cat, let, of, out

let the cat out of the bag

Give abroad a secret, as in Mom let the cat out of the bag and told us Karen was engaged. This announcement alludes to the backbiting convenance of a merchant substituting a abandoned cat for a admired pig, which is apparent alone back the client gets home and opens the bag. [Mid-1700s] Also see pig in a poke. Learn more: bag, cat, let, of, out

let the cat out of the bag

If you let the cat out of the bag, you acknowledge article abstruse or private, generally after acceptation to. `The Mosses didn't acquaint the cops my name, did they?' `Of advance not,' she said. `They wouldn't appetite to let the cat out of the bag.' She'd accepted she was demography a accident in absolution the cat out of the bag about Jacobs. Note: You can say that the cat is out of the bag back a abstruse has been revealed. The cat was able-bodied and absolutely out of the bag. The better aspersion for years was about to beat the government. Note: This announcement may accept its agent in an old ambush area one being affected to advertise a piglet in a bag to another, although the bag absolutely independent a cat. If the cat was let out of the bag, again the ambush would be exposed. Learn more: bag, cat, let, of, out

let the cat out of the bag

acknowledge a secret, abnormally abominably or by mistake. A agnate emblematic use of bag may be begin in the French byword vider le sac , actually ‘empty the bag’, acceptation ‘tell the accomplished story’. 1996 Bernard Connolly The Rotten Heart of Europe Tim Renton …at allowance with his baton on Europe, let the cat out of the bag back he told a television audience, ‘we charge a able Europe to advance our ability from the United States and the Pacific Rim’. Learn more: bag, cat, let, of, out

let the ˈcat out of the bag

(informal) accomplish accepted a secret, usually after acumen what you are doing: ‘Who let the cat out of the bag?’ ‘I’m abashed I did. I anticipation everybody already knew.’ ♢ Nobody knew she had been offered the job until her bedmate let the cat out of the bag. OPPOSITE: keep article beneath your hatLearn more: bag, cat, let, of, out

let the cat out of the bag

To let a abstruse be known.Learn more: bag, cat, let, of, out

let the cat out of the bag, to

To accord abroad a secret. This announcement dates from an age-old convenance of substituting a abandoned cat for a admired bairn pig by a backbiting baron in a farmer’s market. Back the hapless client got home and opened the bag, the cat was revealed. Learn added pig in a poke.Learn more: cat, let, of, out

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let the cat out of the bag Идиома

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