Modern Idioms (and where they come from)

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Spill the tea

To gossip; to reveal some news


Possibly derived from the use of the letter T to represent "Truth", hence "spill the tea" means "tell the truth". Various sources suggest that this derives from drag culture, with uses in print from the early 1990s (www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/tea-slang-meaning-origin).