| 单词 | to spill one's guts |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto spill one's guts (out) c. to spill one's guts (out): to divulge as much as one can, to confess. slang (chiefly U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > reveal one's true character > confess subscribea1616 confess to1771 own1772 admit1830 to make a clean breast of1838 fess1840 to own up1844 to spit it out1855 to make a clean breast of it1878 cough1901 to come clean1919 to spill one's guts (out)1927 tell papa1929 1927 C. F. Coe Me—Gangster iv. 78 ‘Throw him out, eh?’ the old man snarled... ‘Throw him out an' have him spill his guts about the whole gang?’ 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. vii. 140 To hold one's guts, to be silent, and to spill one's guts, to talk, reveal a secret. 1973 Black Panther 8 Sept. 10/3 Mistakenly believing that Haldeman and another assistant had told the truth during previous questioning, Butterfield spilled his guts out. 1979 A. Hailey Overload (new ed.) iii. viii. 226 The kid—he was eighteen, by the way, and not long out of trade school—broke down and spilled his guts. < as lemmas |
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