"let the cat out of the bag" meaning in 英語

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    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語動詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
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      "name": "英語詞元",
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  "etymology_text": "（1700年代中期）與pig in a poke相對，如果一个不诚实的商人试图把猫当作猪来卖，而猫出来了或者被人从袋子里拿出来了，那么这个商人的秘密就被泄露了。",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lets the cat out of the bag",
      "raw_tags": [
        "第三人稱單數簡單現在時"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "letting the cat out of the bag",
      "raw_tags": [
        "現在分詞"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "let the cat out of the bag",
      "raw_tags": [
        "一般過去時及過去分詞"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英語",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "pig in a poke"
    },
    {
      "word": "buy a pup"
    },
    {
      "word": "sell a pup"
    },
    {
      "word": "be sold a pup"
    },
    {
      "word": "get off one's chest"
    },
    {
      "word": "bare one's breast"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It was going to be a surprise party until someone let the cat out of the bag.",
          "translation": "要不是有人洩露了秘密的話，这本來會是一个惊喜派对的。"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1849, Currer Bell [筆名; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], 卷 III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "He proved himself as decent, decorous, and conscientious as Peter was rampant, boisterous, and — This last epithet I choose to suppress, because it would let the cat out of the bag.",
          "translation": "他爲人正派、端莊、真誠，而彼得卻是跋扈、暴烈和——這最後的形容詞，姑且從略，因爲寫出來會露餡的。"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "露餡；洩露秘密；使秘密爲人所知（多指不經意地）"
      ],
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      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "raw_tags": [
        "音訊（澳式）"
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "廢棄"
      ],
      "sense": "使秘密爲人所知",
      "word": "spill the beans, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing"
    }
  ],
  "word": "let the cat out of the bag"
}

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  "categories": [
    "英語動詞",
    "英語詞元"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "（1700年代中期）與pig in a poke相對，如果一个不诚实的商人试图把猫当作猪来卖，而猫出来了或者被人从袋子里拿出来了，那么这个商人的秘密就被泄露了。",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lets the cat out of the bag",
      "raw_tags": [
        "第三人稱單數簡單現在時"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "letting the cat out of the bag",
      "raw_tags": [
        "現在分詞"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "let the cat out of the bag",
      "raw_tags": [
        "一般過去時及過去分詞"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英語",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "pig in a poke"
    },
    {
      "word": "buy a pup"
    },
    {
      "word": "sell a pup"
    },
    {
      "word": "be sold a pup"
    },
    {
      "word": "get off one's chest"
    },
    {
      "word": "bare one's breast"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It was going to be a surprise party until someone let the cat out of the bag.",
          "translation": "要不是有人洩露了秘密的話，这本來會是一个惊喜派对的。"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1849, Currer Bell [筆名; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], 卷 III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "He proved himself as decent, decorous, and conscientious as Peter was rampant, boisterous, and — This last epithet I choose to suppress, because it would let the cat out of the bag.",
          "translation": "他爲人正派、端莊、真誠，而彼得卻是跋扈、暴烈和——這最後的形容詞，姑且從略，因爲寫出來會露餡的。"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "露餡；洩露秘密；使秘密爲人所知（多指不經意地）"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "raw_tags": [
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "廢棄"
      ],
      "sense": "使秘密爲人所知",
      "word": "spill the beans, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing"
    }
  ],
  "word": "let the cat out of the bag"
}