To disclose a secret; to let a secret be known, often inadvertently.(phrase)
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Use "let the cat out of the bag" in a sentence
"Whoever he is — say ‘he’ for argument’s sake — he thinks the Captain’s let the cat out of the bag about you coming up here and that you’d be off guard and wide-open to another welt on the napper?"