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sing like a canary idiom informal to give someone, usually the authorities, a lot of secret information, especially about illegal activities: He plays a mafia boss who's about to sing like a canary and enter the witness relocation program. He's going to walk into the grand jury and sing like a canary. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Revealing secrets & becoming known anti-secrecy backchannel bare bare your heart/soulidiom blow someone's coveridiom blow/take the lid off somethingidiom declassify hold huddle kiss put the word outidiom rat rat on someone/something reintroduce revealingly state's evidence surface tip transpire unravel |