The "snitty" comment let the cat out of the bag.
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Why let the cat out of the bag when you can just make it into one?
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"We didn't want to let the cat out of the bag," said a senior official directly involved.
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The Netbook fiasco let the cat out of the bag — consumers are not pushing the limits of their PCs.
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I think Chris Murphy, the Democratic Senator, in the remark at the beginning, let the cat out of the bag.
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"I think it's probably time to let the cat out of the bag…" The cat in question: the Tesla computer.
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Bloomberg News let the cat out of the bag in their original statement after the New York mayor's candidacy was announced.
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But Uber recently let the cat out of the bag when it admitted that it does attempt at first degree price discrimination.
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Both Clark and Darden have avoided confirming their relationship in interviews for years, but Darden (finally!) let the cat out of the bag.
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Well, now, he's let the cat out of the bag ... it's all going down at his alma mater, The University of Tennessee Chattanooga.
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But what the Netbook fiasco did was let the cat out of the bag — consumers are not pushing the limits of their PCs.
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Now that the Times has let the cat out of the bag, biographers of both Faulkner and Wilde have a rich new source to mine.
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He let the "cat out of the bag" about Tesla's efforts to build a custom-built AI chip to help power its autonomous driving capabilities.
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TechCrunch understands that the deal will be officially announced today, but already key personnel have let the cat out of the bag on social media.
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Check out the vid ... Donald puts us in suspense but it's his brother and writer, Stephen, who might've let the cat out of the bag.
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The exciting news came after one of the show's executive producers, David Fincher, let the cat out of the bag during a podcast interview on Friday.
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When Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on CNBC it was to help consumers for Christmas, he let the cat out of the bag: Tariffs hurt consumers.
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"Riverdale" co-stars Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart finally let the cat out of the bag with words instead of smooches -- it's "obvious" they're dating ... according to them.
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While Swift's role is still TBD, Jennifer Hudson let the cat out of the bag, quite literally to let fans know she would be playing "glamour cat" Grizabella.
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Jason Derulo let the cat out of the bag about what he's packing down below, and he's making it clear there was no Photoshop involved ... he's just blessed.
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J Lo made it official -- she and A-Rod are banging, and she let the cat out of the bag by posting a pic with him ... possibly in bed.
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John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, claimed Mr Green had "let the cat out of the bag about Tory intentions to punish older people with a tax on getting old".
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According to Vanity Fair, Rebel Wilson has let the cat out of the bag by confirming the rumors that the Barden Bellas would reunite for a Pitch Perfect 4 film.
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We got Ray J and his wife, Princess Love, outside SiriusXM Studios Thursday in Midtown Manhattan, where he let the cat out of the bag and confirmed ... they're having a girl.
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If it's plausible that Casey was misinformed or misspoke, it seems equally likely that Casey had it exactly right, and just let the cat out of the bag a bit too early.
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Both sides stayed quiet on the speculation, but SoftBank seemed to let the cat out of the bag when it made mention of a confirmed deal during an investor day in February 2016.
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Loose lips sink ships: On Monday, President Trump met with a Russian foreign minister and ambassador at the White House when he let the cat out of the bag on some classified information.
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After a series of very vague posts by Lowndes on Instagram, the 90210 actress and her apparent fiancee, comedy legend Jon Lovitz, finally let the cat out of the bag over the Easter weekend.
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ABOUT THE PENGUINS: Coach Mike Sullivan let the cat out of the bag Friday by stating that Marc-Andre Fleury "deserves the opportunity to play" even though regular-season starter Matt Murray has returned to health.
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We have at least 36 more episodes that we know of to tell this story, and I think it was really pretty smart of them to not let the cat out of the bag too soon.
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Dua Lipa and Anwar Hadid let the cat out of the bag that they're dating by snuggling at a UK festival show -- but we've learned before they cozied up to music, they played their own music.
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Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott let the cat out of the bag on Stormi's first name, but now we have more deets from her birth certificate, like her full name -- it's just Stormi Webster, no middle name.
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Obviously, none of the other women knew this coming into the competition — but Liz decided to let the cat out of the bag in the middle of a group date, leaving the other women confused and Nick utterly miserable.
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To be sure, last week, Trump sort of let the cat out of the bag that he wasn't actually that worried about a crisis at the border when he said whether he declared an emergency depended on him making a deal.
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The outlet is reporting that the Lip Kit mogul and entrepreneur began telling friends and family the news earlier this month, and that father Travis Scott, Kylie's boyfriend of roughly four months, has also let the cat out of the bag.
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Since this article was originally published, Samsung has removed both the ship date of August 23rd and the values it is offering for trade-ins from the site, so it seems that the company let the cat out of the bag a bit earlier than it had anticipated.
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She already let the cat out of the bag this weekend in a Guardian op-ed... Titled "Donald trump has destroyed American leadership, I'll restore it." the op-ed whined about how Trump alienated the NATO alliance, it bashes him for meeting with so-called autocrats from Moscow and Pyongyang, and questioning international agreements that the U.S. is party to.
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When the buyer discovered the deception, he was said to "let the cat out of the bag", that is, to learn of something unfortunate prematurely, William Turton, "Origines Zoologicæ, or Zoological Recollections", in Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology and Meteorology 7 p. 326 hence the expression "letting the cat out of the bag",Let the cat out of the bag on Theidioms.com meaning to reveal that which is secret. The French idiom acheter (un) chat en poche and the Dutch een kat in de zak kopen (both: to buy a cat in a bag) refer to an actual scam of this nature, as do many other European equivalents, while the English expression refers to the appearance of the trick.
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Brad and Victoria subsequently divorced. Victoria discovered that she was pregnant again, but the father turned out to be J.T. Hellstrom, to whom she was now married. After the collapse of Clear Springs, Victoria got struck by falling debris, and she was in a coma for months. After waking up, Brad let the cat out of the bag about Victor firing Nick from Newman Enterprises.
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The derivation of the phrase is not clear. One suggestion is that the phrase refers to the whip-like "cat o'nine tails", an instrument of punishment once used on Royal Navy vessels. The instrument was purportedly stored in a red sack, and a sailor who revealed the transgressions of another would be "letting the cat out of the bag".Let the Cat out of the Bag, at Snopes.
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The Foreign Office frequently consulted her on affairs relating to Soviet policy. Many of her publications became standard texts, including her 1933 Soviet economic policy in the East: Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Mongolia and Tana Tuva, Sin Kiang. Encouraged to write a further volume, she wrote Soviet trade from the Pacific to the Levant, published in 1935. For her research she combed through Soviet files and cross-checked with published statistics, monitoring the Soviet press "for the disclosures of the special correspondent who almost invariably let the cat out of the bag of fiction".
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Some of her entries focus on everyday words such as "irony" and "OK," while others address lengthy and rarely used words such as "floccinaucinihilipilification" and "antidisestablishmentarianism." Some entries also address idioms, including "let the cat out of the bag," "dressed to the nines," and "three sheets to the wind," or new words like the verb "to google." Orlova appeared on the cover of the November 2009 issue of the wine, beer and spirits publication Mutineer Magazine, applying her word explanations to common beverage words. Orlova was profiled on "The Medium," an Internet feature of The New York Times Magazine.
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Introduced along with Rockbusters on 12 October 2002 and lasting throughout the autumn, Educating Ricky was a feature in which Karl tries to teach Ricky several facts every week by catching his attention with a made-up headline, usually a pun. At the time, Gervais described Educating Ricky as being his favourite segment because the puns often left him in hysterics. Some classic stories include a man who was abducted by aliens for three days and he grew a beard, a man who was beheaded and his corpse took 32 steps after decapitation, the infamous tale of the hairy Chinese kid and the origin of the phrase "don't let the cat out of the bag".
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Cohen responded by assuring the Baganda that there was no reason for concern, and that no decision pertaining to the formation of an East African federation would be made without first consulting them. There was a residual feeling in Buganda, however, that Lyttelton had let the cat out of the bag. The incident served to crystallise animosity and apparent slights dating back to the 1900 Agreement, and prompted widespread calls among the Baganda for Bugandan independence as the only protection against British overreach. A reply from the Secretary of State attempting to reassure Mutesa and his Ministers that "the inclusion of the Uganda Protectorate in any such federation is outside the realm of practical politics at the present time" served only to fan the flames.
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John O'Connor Power, the member for Mayo, asked the First Lord of the Admiralty to bring the navy cat-of-nine-tails to the Commons Library so that the members might see what they were voting about. It was the Great "Cat" Contention, "Mr Speaker, since the Government has let the cat out of the bag, there is nothing to be done but to take the bull by the horns." Poet Laureate Ted Hughes celebrates the occasion in his poem, "Wilfred Owen's Photographs": "A witty profound Irishman calls/For a 'cat' into the House, and sits to watch/The gentry fingering its stained tails./Whereupon ...Quietly, unopposed,/The motion was passed."Hughes, Ted, "Wilfred Owen's Photographs", Lupercal, 1960. See also Stanford, Jane, That Irishman: the Life and Times of John O'Connor Power, 2011, pp. 79-80.
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In January 1968, Dr Neville Green interviewed on audiotape Charles Overheu, the brother of Hay's partner and co-owner of Nulla Nulla station Leopold Overheu: > They all got together up there and there was a bloody massacre because I > think they shot about three hundred natives all in one hit and there was a > hell of a row over it. It was all published in the papers and somebody let > the cat out of the bag and anyhow the government and the judges in those > times they realised what the trouble was and the whole thing was hushed up > you see. In the same year, Forrest River Aborigines specified that the massacres had taken place at five different sites, and a German scholar, Dr Helmut Reim, from interviews with three Aboriginal elders, concluded that between 80 and 100 Aborigines had been killed in the massacres on the Marndoc Reserve, of which the Forrest River Mission was a small part.
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