tongues wagging
informalIf what someone says or does starts tongues wagging, it causes other people to start talking and guessing things about their private lives:
Do you think if we leave the party together it will set/start tongues wagging?
They tried to keep their affair secret, but it wasn't long before tongues began to wag.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Revealing secrets & becoming known
- (the) word is/gets out idiom
- bare
- be the talk of the town idiom
- break cover idiom
- cat
- come out
- dob sb in
- fink
- get around (somewhere)
- give sth away
- King's evidence
- leak
- let the cat out of the bag idiom
- open your heart to someone idiom
- sneak
- spill the beans idiom
- take the wraps off sth idiom
- tell on sb
- turn
- unmask
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