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 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

He’s too close a bird to give the show away.

From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Mitford, Bertram

I should have been certain to give the show away in my anxiety for fear anybody should get to know about it, and do him a mischief.

From Jack Haydon's Quest by Jellicoe, John

"This chap Melchard, properly handled, will give the show away, and the League of Nations or some other comic crowd'll corral the lot."

From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Fleming, Oliver