spill one's guts

present singular third person spills one's guts · participle present spilling one's guts · participle past spilled one's guts · past spilled one's guts · participle past spilt one's guts · past spilt one's guts

1. idiomaticslangTo confess, or to divulge secrets, typically speaking freely and at length after a change of motive or an incentive.

   At first, the suspect would not tell us anything about the other participants in the crime. But after being offered a deal, he spilled his guts.

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   And we talked about more than the book as well. Her instant-intimacy stunt worked, and I spilled my guts.

   2023, Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Penguin, →ISBN, page 346

   Synonyms: spill the beans

2. idiomaticslangTo vomit.

   2007 Joyce Sterling Scarbrough, Different Roads, Stonehedge Publishing But the sudden motion combined with the inhuman amount of whiskey he’d consumed must’ve gotten to him, because he started to look green and made a dive for the side of the bed to spill his guts.

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   He suddenly wanted to vomit, to spill his guts right here on Lake Street in front of the thousands watching.

   1994, Garth Battista, The runner's literary companion: great stories and poems about running, Breakaway Books, page 102

   A stench preceded a green cloud that almost caused the wizard to spill his guts.

   2006, Arthur Roberts, The Sorcerer's Song and the Cat's Meow,, page 167