spill the beans

English

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  • IPA(key): /spɪl ðə biːnz/
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spill the beans (third-person singular simple present spills the beans, present participle spilling the beans, simple past and past participle spilled the beans or spilt the beans)

  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To reveal a secret; to disclose.
    They had planned it as a surprise party, but somebody spilled the beans.
    • April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair‎:
      More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love. Diana claimed to be outraged in 1994 when Daily Express journalist Anna Pasternak spilled the beans of her affair with former army officer James Hewitt […]
      adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books

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