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I'm adam before we start.

I want you to come in closer when I want to let you in on a little secret.

Ok, english is pretty difficult.

They know.

How do they know who spilled the beans?

Okay, so a couple of new expressions there for you.

Maybe I'm just playing with you today.

I'm gonna talk to you about secrets.

Okay, Secrets are very important.

Everybody has secrets.

Everybody wants to share a secret with somebody.

So there are certain expressions for sharing secrets and for keeping secrets and for telling somebody you're prepared to keep a secret.

And then there are expressions when that secret has been uh you know, shared with other people.

So first we're gonna talk about keeping secrets and then I'm gonna talk to you about revealing secrets.

The expressions that we use in english for all these things.

So let's start with telling somebody you want them to keep the information secret.

Okay.

So if you're gonna let someone in on something to let in on means to share some piece of information that is not generally known, other people don't know about it.

So, I'm gonna let you in on this little circle of information that only a few people know or maybe only I know and now only you will know.

So, I'm gonna share a secret with you now.

If somebody ever tells you, okay, between you and me or between us, that means they want you to keep this information secret.

They don't want you to tell other people.

It's between us.

It doesn't go anywhere else.

Okay and very more direct.

Whatever this information or this story or this piece of thing we found doesn't leave this room.

So this conversation doesn't leave this room.

It means it's only the people in the room can hear it and can know about it.

Nobody else can.

Okay so whatever it is you're doing doesn't leave this room.

Now.

You can change the word room.

Doesn't leave, this office doesn't leave this hotel doesn't leave wherever you are.

If it's something doesn't leave it means it's not to be shared.

Okay now this is a very good expression and it's very specific but it's become quite common and used in other situations.

Las Vegas.

When people talk about Vegas, they're talking about Las Vegas and the U.

S.

You know the place in all the movies with all the casinos and the gambling people go to Vegas and they do crazy things.

A lot of people especially guys like to go there for like a bachelor party before they get married.

They have a big party.

All the guys go together and they have some fun etcetera.

Las Vegas is also known as Sin City.

Okay.

Sin a sin is something bad like against the bible against religion.

Right?

So Sin city.

So a lot of people do a lot of bad things in Vegas.

But everybody understands that what happens in Las Vegas, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas you don't take it home with you.

You don't tell anybody else.

Only the group you're with knows what happened.

But this expression has become so popular that people just automatically switch Vegas to wherever it is they are.

What happens in Toronto stays in Toronto?

Or what happens in this place stays in this place?

What happens camping, stays camping?

Any situation you're in, just use this expression and take out the Vegas.

Put in the new situation means don't share this information.

Now.

For your ears.

Only for your eyes only if somebody tells you that this is for your ears only means they're sharing a secret with you.

You're not supposed to tell anybody else.

If they're showing you something like a document, for example, it's for your eyes only means you can see it.

Don't tell anybody else what you saw.

Don't let anybody else see it.

Especially okay.

Now, if you say Mum's the word now, we're talking about keeping a secret.

Somebody wants to tell you a secret, but they want to make sure that you can keep it that you're not going to share it.

So how do you how do you tell them that you're prepared to keep the secret?

For example, I say I want to tell you something, but it's between between us between you and me or mum's the word.

Mum's the word means I will keep it quiet.

I will not say a mom, I will not say anything to anybody.

Oh sorry.

I forgot to mention before.

If somebody wants to tell you a secret.

They want you to make sure you understand it's a secret.

They may say keep it hush hush hush.

Keep it quiet.

Don't tell anybody.

And then you will say oh mom's the word or you will say my lips are sealed.

My lips are closed.

They're shut their tight.

I won't tell anybody.

I'm gonna get back to this one in a second.

If you tell somebody that the information is in the vault.

Now if you think about a vault, a vault is a very protected room.

For example in a bank, all the money is kept in a room there's like a metal a big metal or steel door.

Lots of alarms.

It's very safe.

Nothing will come out.

Nothing will come in.

Okay.

So if you can keep something in the vault means you can keep it a secret and nobody will be able to get it out of you.

Now off the record can go both ways.

Can I speak to you off the record Or somebody says something you said.

And I said don't worry this is off the record.

It can go both ways to keep a secret or to tell somebody.

You will keep a secret.

This is especially used by journalists when they are interviewing someone and that person wants to tell the journalists something but he or she doesn't want that.

Journalists to write about that information in the newspaper or on tv they will say it's off the record means it's not being recorded.

It's between you and me.

Don't share it with other people.

Just have the information.

Do whatever you want to do with it.

Okay so here I want to share a secret with you here I'm telling you.

Go ahead.

I will keep it.

No problem.

But of course secrets somehow tend to get out and we're gonna find out the language to talk about how the secret got out and became public.

Okay.

Okay so now it's time to look at the other side of the equation when somebody lets the information slip.

Okay that's one of the expressions we're gonna look here.

A very common idiom that we used to talk about revealing a secret is to let the cat out of the bag.

It's a little bit of a strange idiom.

It has nothing to do with secrets.

But a cat is very feisty.

It wants to run around and make noise and make trouble.

It's in the bag it's contained when you let it out it goes all over the place and does crazy things just like a secret can do.

Okay.

Another expression is spill the beans.

I'm not exactly sure where this one came from but it's also an idiom to spill the beans means to share a secret with other people or to share information that's not public.

Okay.

Now to rat someone out.

This is usually used for criminals.

When one criminal tells the police what another criminal did.

But it doesn't have to be in school.

If a child does, if a student does something behind the teacher's back and then the teacher turns around and said who did that, then another student might say, oh it was billy.

So Billy ratted out, Oh sorry paul ratted out Billy.

Now the problem is that we would call paul the person who gave the secret a rat or we would call him a snitch.

But I'll talk about snitch again in a second.

So to rat someone out means to reveal the identity of the person who's trying to keep something secret.

Okay now to give something away to give something away has many meanings.

But in terms of secrets, if you give something away, you're giving enough of a hint that somebody can guess the rest of the secret and let something slip is very similar.

If you let a little piece of information just slip off your tongue, the person who hears it might be able to guess more information.

And the secret is no longer a secret.

Right now again let's go talk about journalists or and talk about the media.

If something leaks means that something is supposed to be private or supposed to be secret.

But somehow it it came out of the protected bubble.

It leaked out.

Got to the media and then became public knowledge, right?

So that's more common and more more modern way of revealing a secret, give it to the media, let the media spread it out.

If somebody cracks.

So for example, I have a secret and this person knows I have a secret and they keep pushing me and pushing me and pushing me and pushing me and finally I got crack I split into and the secret comes out and that person knows the secret as well.

Now there is something called an open secret.

This is especially used in business when a company is trying to keep a secret, they're gonna take over another company.

But everybody in the industry understands that this makes sense, and this is probably what they want and it's going to happen.

So it's a secret, but everybody knows about it.

So it's an open secret.

It's not really a secret, but the company is still pretending it's a secret.

Although everybody already knows about it.

Now we have two expressions for people who share secrets.

One is a whistleblower and the other is a snitch, technically these days, both are considered negative terms, a snitch is somebody who tells on another person who shares somebody's identity or shares a secret about somebody else.

So like I said, like a rat snitch, but can also be a little bit more adult, Okay, rat, more criminal world snitch.

More kids and adults actually a whistleblower is a very special particular case.

If I work in the company and I know that this company is doing illegal things and I go and I tell the media or I tell the police or I tell the government etcetera technically I'm doing something good because I'm telling the authorities that the company is doing something illegal.

But most people think of whistleblowers as snitches or rats and they get a lot of attacks in the media and everywhere else technically they're doing something good but people don't like people who give information who share secrets.

So a very famous whistleblower is Edward Snowden.

I think everybody knows about him what he did with the S.

A.

In the U.

S.

Again technically he's doing it to protect the people but people didn't look at him very well after that.

Okay so if you have any secrets you'd like to share with us.

If you'd like to spill the beans please do so in the ink vid dot com comment section.

I'd love to hear your secrets.

I'm sure there are very good secrets out there.

But again if you're doing it properly then that secret is locked in the vault, that's never coming out.

And that's the way it should be okay if you have any questions you can also ask me those in the comments section.

There's a quiz that you can test your knowledge of these expressions and words.

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