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The secret escapes before you decide you wanted it to.
means To let liquid, or information, escape its container by accident — spreading further than intended.
from From Old English 'spillan,' meaning to destroy or waste, especially to shed blood. The sense narrowed over centuries from 'to ruin or squander' down to the more literal 'to let liquid spill from a vessel' — and later, by metaphor, to let secrets leak out the same careless way.
- origin
- old english for destroy, now just gossip
- grammar quirk
- demands tea as its object, oddly specific
- physics
- liquid and secrets obey the same law: gravity