spill one's guts
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[edit]spill one's guts (third-person singular simple present spills one's guts, present participle spilling one's guts, simple past and past participle spilled one's guts or spilt one's guts)
- (slang, idiomatic) To confess, or to divulge secrets, typically speaking freely and at length after a change of motive or an incentive.
- At first, the suspect would not tell us anything about the other participants in the crime. But after being offered a deal, he spilled his guts.
- Synonym: spill the beans
- (slang, idiomatic) To vomit.
- 1994, Garth Battista, The runner's literary companion: great stories and poems about running, Breakaway Books, page 102:
- He suddenly wanted to vomit, to spill his guts right here on Lake Street in front of the thousands watching.
- 2006, Arthur Roberts, The Sorcerer's Song and the Cat's Meow,, page 167:
- A stench preceded a green cloud that almost caused the wizard to spill his guts.
- 2007 Joyce Sterling Scarbrough, Different Roads, Stonehedge Publishing
- But the sudden motion combined with the inhuman amount of whiskey he’d consumed must’ve gotten to him, because he started to look green and made a dive for the side of the bed to spill his guts.
Translations
[edit]confess, or to divulge secrets, typically speaking freely and at length after a change of motive or an incentive
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vomit — see vomit