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What does spill the beans mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To reveal a secret; to disclose.
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During his cross-examination he was very keen to spill the beans about his political detractors.
In it, Kelly was said to spill the beans on his long-standing but secret friendship with actor Cary Grant.
There's no need to keep the whole thing secret, but never, ever spill the beans about what was said and what was done.
At launch, Motorola was only willing to spill the beans on one carrier who'd be getting the handset: Sprint.
Insiders who we were told would finally spill the beans on Milosevic turned out to be nothing of the kind.
Because you can't get a good book unless you're going to spill the beans, and I can't spill the beans … not for a long time.

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