spill the beans

Questions about spill the beans

What is another word for spill the beans?

It depends which spill the beans you mean. In the sense “divulge confidential information or secrets”, the synonyms are let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out. Across all 1 sense there are 9 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of spill the beans?

WordNet records no antonym for spill the beans. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for spill the beans come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of spill the beans

• Full entry for spill the beansAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for spill the beansWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.