{"id":73282,"date":"2020-03-23T08:05:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73282"},"modified":"2020-03-23T08:05:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:05:52","slug":"spill-the-beans-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/spill-the-beans-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Spill The Beans | English Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To\u00a0<b>spill the beans<\/b>\u00a0is to reveal a secret unintentionally. This informal idiom is very common in American English. This expression has been in use since early twentieth century.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I didn\u2019t want anyone to know about my engagement to Susie, but my sister\u00a0<b>spilled the beans<\/b>. (= My sister unintentionally revealed the secret.)<\/li>\n<li>When he refused to marry her, she threatened to\u00a0<b>spill the beans<\/b>\u00a0about their affair with his wife.<\/li>\n<li>I want the party to be a secret. Please don\u2019t\u00a0<b>spill the beans<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The idiom\u00a0<b>let the cat out of the bag<\/b>\u00a0has a similar meaning.<\/p>\n<h5>Exercise<\/h5>\n<p>What does the following sentence mean?<\/p>\n<p><i>He didn\u2019t want his parents to find out that he was in a relationship with his colleague, but his roommate spilled the beans.<\/i><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>His roommate intentionally told his parents that he was in a relationship with his colleague.<\/li>\n<li>His roommate unintentionally revealed that he was in a relationship with his colleague<\/li>\n<li>His roommate didn\u2019t reveal any secret.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Answer<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Option 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To\u00a0spill the beans\u00a0is to reveal a secret unintentionally. This informal idiom is very common in American English. This expression has been in use since early twentieth century. I didn\u2019t want anyone to know about&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[393,2132],"class_list":["post-73282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-english-idioms","tag-spill-the-beans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73283,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73282\/revisions\/73283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}