Usually means: Revealing a secret unintentionally.
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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. letting the cat out of the bag: Merriam-Webster
  2. letting the cat out of the bag: Vocabulary.com
  3. Letting the cat out of the bag: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. letting the cat out of the bag: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. letting the cat out of the bag: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. letting the cat out of the bag: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. letting the cat out of the bag, Letting the cat out of the bag: Idioms

Definitions from Wikipedia (Letting the cat out of the bag)

noun:  (also ...box) a colloquialism that means to reveal facts previously hidden.


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