Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red by Andrew Thompson

Author:Andrew Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781612436951
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Published: 2017-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

Spill the Beans

MEANING: divulge a secret or confess

IN CONTEXT: The witness was questioned extensively, and in the end he spilled the beans and told the court everything.

Spill the beans has its origins in ancient Greece. When an election was conducted for a new member to enter a secret society or private club, the existing members would vote. The members were given white and brown beans, and each member could only place one in a jar to cast his vote. A white bean meant “yes,” and a brown bean meant “no.” Nobody apart from the vote counters knew how many of each bean was in each jar, so the new member would never know just how popular or unpopular he was—unless, of course, the jar was knocked over. In that case, the beans would spill, and the votes would be divulged.

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