give the show away
Example Sentences
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Tento one, the woman will give the show away.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
I should have been certain to give the show away in my anxiety for fear anybody should get to know about it, and do him a mischief.
From Jack Haydon's Quest by John Jellicoe
Of course there is no danger here, but at other times and in other places you might incautiously give the show away.
From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Edward S. Hodgson
"But if, as you suggest, I am—or was—acting with a purpose, why expect me to give the show away?"
From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Louis Joseph Vance
"I must look out to that, or I'll give the show away."
From Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force by Ernest Prater
