spill the beans

Questions about spill the beans

What does spill the beans mean?

spill the beans means "divulge confidential information or secrets".

What is another word for spill the beans?

Close synonyms include let the cat out of the bag, 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 spill the beans a common word?

spill the beans 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.