See let slip on Wiktionary
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"text": "He finally let slip that they plan to take over the business.",
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"ref": "1909 December 29, Jack London, “The Whale Tooth”, in South Sea Tales, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, page 61:",
"text": "The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.",
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"To divulge a secret, as by accident or mistake."
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"(transitive, idiomatic) To divulge a secret, as by accident or mistake."
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"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to divulge a secret",
"word": "fortale sig"
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"roman": "proboltatʹsja",
"sense": "to divulge a secret",
"word": "проболтаться"
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"ref": "1862, Thomas Hood, John Clubbe, Tom Hood, Works: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse. Edited, with Notes (page 263)",
"text": "I would take it kind of your worship to let me be present at his examination, that if he clear himself of one murder I may let slip at him with the other."
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"To let fly; to attack or challenge someone."
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}
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"sense": "to divulge a secret",
"word": "fortale sig"
},
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "proboltatʹsja",
"sense": "to divulge a secret",
"word": "проболтаться"
},
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"roman": "progovoritʹsja",
"sense": "to divulge a secret",
"word": "проговориться"
}
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"word": "let slip"
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