to let out
27
3.7
- phrasal verb
- /lɛt aʊt/
- After years of keeping it a secret, she finally decided to let out her feelings for him.
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Watch on YouTubeI I don't that I can't, I can't let this get out.
- I I don't that I can't, I can't let this get out.
- And you owe it to your to the world to let that art out.
- And I came clean and I sort of let it all out.
- Now, when I when I let my story out about Jimmy Savile, I was ridiculed.
- And for the first time ever, embarrassing as it was, you know, I confessed in a group of brothers and just let it all out there.
Examples
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And really let out the most personal thing about me.
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So half a point for you for being half right and making me let let out my biggest secret.
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However, she is starting to let things out about what happened to her during those years she was away.
Fiction book (1992) -
And she was able to let out all of the fears about what had happened to her.
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Have the grief, feel it out, let it out and be patient with yourself.
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If we are to learn from the times when Christians let the secret out, what lessons might we learn?
Academic text (1995) -
That's what it did to Peter, and he let it all out in his review.
Blog text (9) -
You have amazingness inside you and you need to let that out, trust that it's there, embrace it and go all in on it.
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Don't be afraid, for Sarah's sake, tell me about it, let it out.
Fiction book (1992) -
And when she started to express and let those things out, it turns out that she has a struggle with self esteem due to what she experienced with her father.
Synonyms
∞
7.7
Reveal a secret or someone's identity
∞
2.3
Show something that was hidden or secret
709
3.6
To make news known quickly
413
4.1
Reveal hidden facts or bad actions to people
293
4.1
To tell secret information to the public without permission
245
4.1
To tell people information that was secret
234
3.5
Reveal secret facts to the public
130
3.4
Tell a secret on purpose or by accident
120
4.1
To make something known for the first time
94
4.5
To reveal secret information, often by mistake
80
8.6
To tell the police or another authority about someone's bad action, betraying their trust
68
6.0
To tell a secret or show feelings you were trying to hide
52
6.2
To tell secret or private information to people
51
3.7
Make secret information known to the public
38
4.2
To show a feeling or secret without meaning to
24
3.7
To show facts that were hidden before
23
5.6
Accidentally tell someone something you want to keep secret
18
6.0
Tell a secret by accident before others know
14
9.9
To tell other people someone's private information, often their sexual orientation, without their permission
13
5.5
To show something hidden so people can see it
8
6.5
To make a secret suddenly become known
8
6.8
Reveal secret information that shocks people
4
5.1
To tell a secret that should be kept
2
7.1
To reveal information that was previously hidden
1
5.5
To tell a secret by accident and spoil a surprise
1
7.7
To make something hidden become visible by removing a cover or showing the truth
1
7.9
To tell a secret carelessly or without meaning to
1
4.4
To tell people about something secret
1
9.9
To make a secret known often without meaning to
1
8.0
To tell secrets without thinking
Antonyms
How Revealing
413
4.1
∞
2.3
- Informal
46
3.9
27
3.7
- Informal
68
6.0
119
2.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to make known information' follows directly from 'let' (allow) + 'out' (to the outside/public) — allowing something private to go out into the open. This compositional motion/disclosure pattern for particle out is common and cross-linguistically plausible, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would very likely infer this sense.
Etymology
Let out may come from the picture of something kept inside being released to the outside, like a secret leaving someone's mouth. So, it came to mean 'to make known information'.