spill the beans

spill the beans
verb
divulge confidential information or secrets
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Be careful—his secretary talks

• Syn:
• Ant: ↑keep quiet (for: ↑talk)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑singing (for: ↑sing), ↑blabber (for: ↑blab), ↑tattle (for: ↑tattle), ↑tattler (for: ↑tattle), ↑talkative (for: ↑talk), ↑talk (for: ↑talk)
• Hypernyms:
↑unwrap, ↑disclose, ↑let on, ↑bring out, ↑reveal, ↑discover, ↑expose, ↑divulge, ↑break, ↑give away, ↑let out
• Verb Group: ↑spill, ↑talk
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s something

 (for: ↑blab out)
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Somebody ——s something

 (for: ↑babble out)

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REVEAL ALL, tell all, give the game away, talk; informal let the cat out of the bag, blab, come clean.
→ spill

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phrasal
1. : to cause embarrassment by indiscreetly divulging information
2. : to upset a plan or arrangement

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spill the beans (informal)
To divulge information, or a secret, whether inadvertently or not
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Main Entry: ↑bean
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spill the beans see under ↑bean
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Main Entry: ↑spill

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spill the beans informal phrase
to tell someone something, often something that should be kept secret
Thesaurus: to tell or reveal a secret or secretssynonym
Main entry: spill

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informal reveal secret information unintentionally or indiscreetly

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spill the beans
informal : to reveal secret information

I tried to get him to tell me what he knew, but he refused to spill the beans.

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Main Entry: ↑bean
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spill the beans — see ↑bean
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Main Entry: ↑spill

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spill the ˈbeans idiom
(informal) to tell sb sth that should be kept secret or private
Main entry: ↑spillidiom

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