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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 192. The idiom today is to let the
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cat out of the bag. Okay. Yeah. This is a very common idiom.
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Let's look at the note here. If someone lets the cat out of the bag, he or she
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mistakenly reveals a secret. So they let a secret slip out , they were supposed to
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keep the secret and they, they reveaed it. They let it out. Let's continue. This
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phrase is actually believed to have come from a common scam in former times.
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Remember a scam it's when you're cheating people. You're deceiving them. You know
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then you're making them believe they're buying one thing and sometimes they're
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not really getting the right quality or one way or another you're cheating them
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out of money. So let's continue. At one time, vendors sold pigs in bags. I know
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isn't that strange ? And some would switch the more valuable
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pigs, Switch of course means change. Switch the more valuable pigs with the
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less valuable cats. Once it was discovered, the cat was out of the bag. So
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by that time the secret was out. It was revealed. The cat was out of the bag. All
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right. So you knew you got scammed. You knew , you got cheated. This is similar to
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another modern-day idiom ' the jig is up.' Yeah. Actually I did another video on
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the jig is up. A long time ago if you're interested you
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could go back and check that one out. Okay good.
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Oh let's continue here. We have two examples. Example number one. I told my
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daughter not to say what we bought Daddy for his birthday, but unfortunately she
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let the cat out of the bag. Yeah we often see this in movies or stories. Where the
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mother and the daughter buy a gift together, and you know the mother always
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says well don't tell Daddy and sometimes they let the cat out of the bag right
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away. As soon as daddy gets home so we see this a lot. All right let's look at the
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second example. Don't Tell Barbara that
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secret. She has a habit of letting the cat out of the bag. Yeah. So maybe she has
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a big mouth. Okay. Anyway, so this is perfectly just the way we would use it.
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Anyway I hope it's clear. I hope you got it. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
