Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “let the cat out of the bag” and its meaning is “to tell a secret carelessly; to reveal a secret mistakenly”.
Example Sentence: The cat is beginning to slip out of the bag. The chief executive of Kolkata Knight Riders has been quoted in the Daily Telegraph as saying that IPL franchises hope to contract players for 12 months of the year to play for their different teams…. It does not take great imagination to see a handful of rich franchises running world cricket, deciding who plays where, and by extension, settling on where it is more profitable to lose.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article KKR’s dream gives us a hint to how they see cricket’s future and click here to read it.
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