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单词 to spill the beans
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to spill the beans
e. Slang phrases: not to know beans (U.S.): not to know something, to be not well informed; not to care beans (U.S.), not to care at all; a hill of beans (originally U.S.): a thing of little value (cf. sense 6a); to spill the beans (see spill v.); to be full of beans: to be full of energy, and in high spirits (cf. beany adj. 1) (see also quot. 1874); to give (a person) beans (originally U.S.): to deal severely with, to punish heavily; so to get beans; old bean (cf. old adj. Compounds 5b), a familiar form of address.
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the mind > emotion > indifference > [verb (intransitive)]
to put in no chaloir1477
not to care1490
to let the world wag (as it will)c1525
not to care a chip1556
to hang loose (to)1591
(to bid, care, give) a fig, or fig's end for1632
not to careor matter a farthing1647
not to care a doit1660
(not) to care twopencea1744
not to give a curse (also damn)1763
not to care a dump1821
not to care beans1833
not to care a darn1840
not to give a darn1840
not to care a straw (two, three straws)1861
not to care (also give) a whoop1867
(to care) not a fouter1871
not to care (or give) a toss1876
not to give (also care) a fuck1879
je m'en fiche1889
not to care a dit(e)1907
je m'en fous1918
not to give a shit1918
to pay no nevermind1946
not to give a sod1949
not to give (also care) a monkey's (fuck)1960
not to give a stuff1974
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > abound with energy
to be full of beans1833
zing1966
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > be ignorant [phrase] > know nothing
to say (also know) neither buff nor stye?a1750
to know little (or nothing) and care less1783
not to know beans1833
not to have the remotest1864
(not) to know from nothing1933
not to know shit from Shinolaa1948
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little worth
ivy-leafc1000
needle?c1225
sloec1250
peasea1275
strawc1290
bean1297
nutc1300
buttonc1330
leekc1330
trifle1375
cress1377
goose-wing1377
sop1377
niflec1395
vetcha1400
a pin's head (also point)c1450
trump1513
plack1530
toy1530
blue point1532
grey groat1546
cherry-stone1607
jiggalorum1613
candle-enda1625
peppercorn1638
sponge1671
sneeshing1686
snottera1689
catchpenny1705
potato1757
snuff1809
pinhead1828
traneen1837
a hill of beans1863
gubbins1918
society > authority > punishment > [verb (intransitive)] > receive punishment > be punished severely
to buy the bargain dear1352
smart1534
sweata1625
to nap it1699
to get it1805
to catch or get Jesse1839
to get (also catch, take) it in the neck1881
to get beans1893
to get (also do) the book1928
the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun] > familiar form of address
mon amic1425
matec1500
boy1532
old lad1594
old boy1602
captaina1616
mon cher1673
old chap1823
old man1828
ou maat1838
boysie1846
old top1856
boetie1867
bra1869
cocker1888
mon vieux1888
face1891
yessir1892
George1903
old sport1905
old bean1917
segotia1917
babe1918
bro1918
tovarish1918
old egg1919
midear1921
old (tin of) fruit1923
sport1923
mush1936
cowboy1961
coz1961
wack1963
yaar1963
John1982
1833 A. Greene Life & Adv. D. Duckworth II. 66 He don't know beans.
1855 Yale Literary Mag. 20 192 Whatever he knows of Euclid and Greek, In Latin he don't know beans.
1857 Knickerbocker Feb. 138 I don't care beans for the railroad.
1863 ‘E. Kirke’ My Southern Friends v. 80 I..karn't take Preston's note—'taint wuth a hill o' beans.
1888 Chicago Herald One has to know beans to be successful in the latest Washington novelty for entertainment at luncheons.
1901 W. N. Harben Westerfelt 5 He didn't care a hill o' beans fer no gal.
1904 ‘O. Henry’ Cabbages & Kings xii. 216 He wasn't a hill of beans to her.
1926 D. H. Lawrence Let. 4 Jan. (1962) II. 876 Saying my say and seeing other people sup it up doesn't amount to a hill o' beans, as far as I go.
1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross II. vii. 199 'Ounds, 'osses, and men, are in a glorious state of excitement! Full o' beans and benevolence!1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 171 Full of beans, arrogant, purseproud. A person whom sudden prosperity has made offensive and conceited, is said to be too ‘full of beans’. Originally stable slang.1875 B. Disraeli Let. 20 Aug. in Lett. to Lady Bradford (1929) I. xvi. 275 The Sultan..was full of beans.1881 Earl Granville in E. Fitzmaurice Life (1905) II. 237 ‘Full of beans’, an ‘ossy’ phrase.1911 J. Galsworthy Patrician i. x Versatile, ‘full of beans’.1925 Daily News 20 Aug. 7/1 He does it—being full of grit, And also full of beans, sir!1927 J. Elder Thomasina Toddy xxiii. 226 We start off—oh, full of beans—and then we stop.1835 in Amer. Speech (1965) 40 127 I pose you heard ob de battle New Orleans, Whare Ole Gineral Jackson gib de British Beans.1892 Punch 24 Sept. 133 Bad enough if you 'ave to wolf one, but it fair gives yer beans when 'tis two.1893 Pick-me-up 5 Aug. 302 He would get beans at Bedford.1900 Daily News 5 June 3/4 We started shelling them in the open, and gave them beans.1903 Daily Chron. 15 Oct. 5/6 Sir Henry..was invited to give ‘Old Joe’, ‘beans’, and ‘beans’ the Leader of the Opposition proceeded to administer to the ex-Colonial Secretary.1905 H. G. Wells Kipps vi. § 4 When this here old Bean told me, you could have knocked me down with a feather.1914 Evening News 29 Sept. 2/2 We can't get them in the open, only on very rare occasions, and when we do, by gum, they don't half get beans!1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 231 Chorus—‘Goodnight, old bean.’1918 Blighty Christmas No. 27 ‘What made you join the air service?’ ‘No earthly reason, old bean!’1920 Punch 1 Sept. 168/1 The anxiety of the ‘Bewildered Parent’ who complains of the child of two and a-half years who addressed her learned parent as ‘Old bean’.1920 Glasgow Herald 29 Sept. 3 The story is..told..in the patois of Piccadilly of the ‘old bean’ and ‘old thing’ variety.1946 P. G. Wodehouse Joy in Morning xvii. 145 He wanted to give me beans, but Florence wouldn't let him. She said ‘Father you are not to touch him. It was a pure misunderstanding.’1955 J. Thomas No Banners xxix. 286 I say, old bean, let's stick together.
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to spill the beans
b. to spill the beans: to reveal a secret. slang (originally U.S.).
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society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > disclose or reveal secrets
tell1537
blaba1616
to let the cat out of the bag1760
to blow the gab or gaff1834
to shoot off one's mouth1864
to give the show away1879
unload1904
to spill the beans1919
to shoot the works1922
1919 T. K. Holmes Man from Tall Timber xxviii. 355 ‘Mother certainly has spilled the beans!’ thought Stafford in vast amusement.
1921 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean viii. 136 The beans are spilled, and that is what Maddigan guessed the moment he set eyes on you.
1928 Daily Express 10 Oct. 6 Spill the beans. Come clean on the whole game.
1929 E. Linklater Poet's Pub vii. 91 ‘Tell me the truth,’ she says. ‘Spill the beans, Holly, old man!’
1945 Sun (Baltimore) 28 Nov. 1/1 A Government publication in this country spilled the beans concerning our urgent interest in experiments with uranium.
1958 E. Dundy Dud Avocado i. vi. 93 Spilling beans of shattering truths or equally shattering lies.
1966 D. Varaday Gara-Yaka's Domain vii. 82 Wilson in an indulgent moment of weakness ‘spilt the beans’.
1979 G. Hammond Dead Game vii. 83 You asked me to trust you... So now I think you'd better spill the beans.
1982 Listener 23 Dec. 3/1 Julian Critchley spills the beans about El Vino and says why he likes it.
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