"tell all" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tells all",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telling all",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "told all",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "told all",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tell<,,told> all"
      },
      "expansion": "tell all (third-person singular simple present tells all, present participle telling all, simple past and past participle told all)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The suspect told all when he saw the surveillance tapes linking him to the crime scene.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The actress's earthy new book tells all.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reveal everything, particularly information that is normally withheld."
      ],
      "id": "en-tell_all-en-verb-XIhWz52x",
      "links": [
        [
          "reveal",
          "reveal"
        ],
        [
          "everything",
          "everything"
        ],
        [
          "information",
          "information"
        ],
        [
          "withheld",
          "withheld"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To reveal everything, particularly information that is normally withheld."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "sense": "reveal everything",
          "word": "confess"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "21 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She told all of the news to her friends.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tell, all."
      ],
      "id": "en-tell_all-en-verb-x49br5QU",
      "links": [
        [
          "tell",
          "tell#English"
        ],
        [
          "all",
          "all#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "31 69",
          "word": "spill the beans"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "31 69",
          "word": "dish"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌtɛl ˈɔːl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔːl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-tell all.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/15/En-au-tell_all.ogg/En-au-tell_all.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/En-au-tell_all.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tell all"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔːl"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tells all",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telling all",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "told all",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "told all",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tell<,,told> all"
      },
      "expansion": "tell all (third-person singular simple present tells all, present participle telling all, simple past and past participle told all)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The suspect told all when he saw the surveillance tapes linking him to the crime scene.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The actress's earthy new book tells all.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reveal everything, particularly information that is normally withheld."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "reveal",
          "reveal"
        ],
        [
          "everything",
          "everything"
        ],
        [
          "information",
          "information"
        ],
        [
          "withheld",
          "withheld"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To reveal everything, particularly information that is normally withheld."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She told all of the news to her friends.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tell, all."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tell",
          "tell#English"
        ],
        [
          "all",
          "all#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌtɛl ˈɔːl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔːl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-tell all.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/En-au-tell_all.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "reveal everything",
      "word": "confess"
    },
    {
      "word": "spill the beans"
    },
    {
      "word": "dish"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tell all"
}