| 单词 | to blow the gaff |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto blow the gaff 2. Phrase. to blow the gaff: (figurative) to let out a secret; to reveal a plot, or give convicting evidence. ΚΠ 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 156 Blow the gaff. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. v. 68 I wasn't going to blow the gaff, so I told him, as a great secret, that we got it [sc. the gun] up with a kite. 1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude ii. 122 The prisoner..quietly bides his time till the chief warder comes round, then asks to speak to him, and ‘blows the gaff’. < as lemmas |
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