let the cat out of the bag
To disclose a secret; to let a secret be known, often inadvertently.
It was going to be a surprise party until someone let the cat out of the bag.
bag
UK /ˈbæɡ/ US /ˈbæɡ/
noun 5verb 5
Definitions
noun
1
A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
2
A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases
3
One's preference.
Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.
And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing.
4
An ugly woman.
5
The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
verb
1
To put into a bag.
2
To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
We bagged three deer yesterday.
He was a fine specimen, very large and with a beautiful coat, and I wish I had had the luck to bag him.
3
To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
the two opposition groups have bagged almost 300 of the 500 seats contested in the election.
4
To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
"I am sure nobody would mind," said Susan. "It isn't as if we wanted to take them out of the house; we shan't take them even out of the wardrobe." "I never thought of that, Su," said Peter. "Of course, now you put it that way, I see. No one could say you had bagged a coat as long as you leave it in the wardrobe where you found it. And I suppose this whole country is in the wardrobe."
5
To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
When we hit the club to go and hell-raise / Probably end up baggin' the cocktail waitress
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