let the cat out of the bag

Questions about let the cat out of the bag

What does let the cat out of the bag mean?

let the cat out of the bag means "divulge confidential information or secrets".

What is another word for let the cat out of the bag?

Close synonyms include spill the beans, talk, tattle, blab, peach. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is let the cat out of the bag a common word?

let the cat out of the bag is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.