give the show away

Example Sentences

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Tento one, the woman will give the show away.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

I've done a good bit of secret service work myself, and felt in such a funk sometimes that I've realised the temptation to give the show away if I were nailed.

From The Spy in Black by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)

That would give the show away at once.

From The School by the Sea by Brazil, Angela

I might have known that wide spread of glass with the studio electrics on, full-blaze, would give the show away completely.

From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph

Either you'd give the show away, or I should.

From Mr. Prohack by Bennett, Arnold