"die aap uit die mou laat" meaning in Afrikaans

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  "etymology_text": "From older die aap kom uit die mou (“a former secret becomes publicly known”), but influenced (both syntactically and semantically) by English let the cat out of the bag, which has also been calqued as die kat uit die sak laat.",
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        "(idiomatic) To let the cat out of the bag; to disclose a secret; to let a secret be known, often inadvertently."
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