[post_page_title]”Let the cat out of the bag”[/post_page_title]
We’re all guilty of letting the cat out the bag every now and again. Or in other words, divulging a juicy secret we most definitely shouldn’t be spreading, like that time you ‘accidentally’ let slip to your best friend that all their friends were planning a surprise birthday party for them.
This strange phrase has an equally strange origin. During the 1700s, it was not uncommon for pranksters to swap pigs for street cats, selling them covered in a bag to a poor, unsuspecting victim. The trick was discovered when the cat, quite literally, jumped out the bag.
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