Usually means: Reveal secret or confidential information.
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  1. spill the beans: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spill the beans: Merriam-Webster
  3. spill the beans: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spill the beans: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spill the beans: Vocabulary.com
  6. spill the beans: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. spill the beans: Wiktionary
  8. spill the beans: Dictionary.com
  9. Spill the Beans: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. spill the beans: Rhymezone
  11. spill the beans: FreeDictionary.org
  12. spill the beans: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. spill the beans: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. Spill the beans: Phrase Finder

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  1. spill the beans: Encyclopedia

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  2. spill the beans: Idioms

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  1. spill the beans: Urban Dictionary

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▸ verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To reveal a secret; to disclose information.

Similar:
spill the tea, spill one's guts, let something slip, spill one's guts out, split, break with, spill, spill out, spill one's seed, air one's dirty laundry in public, more...

Types:
give away secret, let cat out of bag, expose, divulge, leak, more...

Adjectives:
away, total, castoff, out, level, fire, harlequin, off, fade, disappeared, subject

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Similar:
spill the tea, spill one's guts, let something slip, spill one's guts out, split, break with, spill, spill out, spill one's seed, air one's dirty laundry in public, more...

Types:
give away secret, let cat out of bag, expose, divulge, leak, more...

Adjectives:
away, total, castoff, out, level, fire, harlequin, off, fade, disappeared, subject



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