Cardi B and her wardrobe choices are inching closer to letting the cat out of the bag about her pregnancy.
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Putting these thoughts together and looking at the works in tandem, I thought, 'They're letting the cat out of the bag.
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Karrueche Tran had a slip of the tongue ... nearly letting the cat out of the bag about her rumored turn as an "America's Next Top Model" judge -- or at least it appears that way.
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They eventually file trademarks for their gadgets in the United States—in databases that are much more easily searchable—but the earlier filings in places like Jamaica allow them to claim the rights without letting the cat out of the bag.
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Letting the cat out of the bag (also ...box) is a colloquialism meaning to reveal facts previously hidden. It could refer to revealing a conspiracy (friendly or not) to its target, letting an outsider into an inner circle of knowledge (e.g., explaining an in-joke) or the revelation of a plot twist in a movie or play.
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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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"Buying a pig in a poke" has become a colloquial expression in many European languages, including English, for when someone buys something without examining it beforehand.Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898. In some regions the "pig" in the phrase is replaced by "cat", referring to the bag's actual content, but the saying is otherwise identical. This is also said to be where the phrase "letting the cat out of the bag" comes from, although there may be other explanations.
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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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'Quite simply the best way to spend time when not shopping, sleeping or preparing food' - Tony Hawks 'Can I recommend a book? It’s Joined-Up Thinking by Stevyn Colgan. The author shares my love of trivia’s interconnectedness - far from being ‘random info’, the facts in our brain only come to light because some other fact reminds us of them. It’s this quality that made me love the book - you almost want to have a conversation with it. For instance when it revealed that Charlie Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889, I wanted to say ‘that was only four days before the man he played (in all but name) in The Great Dictator (ie Adolf Hitler). The book’s packed with great info, from the derivation of the phrase ‘letting the cat out of the bag’ to the name for the thin bits of a cricket bail.
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