This term we are learning about “idioms”, we picked one that we want to write about.
Spill the beans means to tell a secret when you are not supposed to and many years ago in Ancient Greece, people didn’t use paper ballots to vote for their leaders. Instead, they used coloured beans, people would drop their bean into a jar completely in secret. If someone accidentally knocked the jar over, all the beans would tumble out. The secret results were revealed way too early, which is exactly why we use the phrase today.
Sentence:
“They tried to keep the birthday party a secret, but Timmy spilled the beans.”
