Akseer Ali Mirani
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to let the cat out of the bag......
Letting the cat out of the bag is a colloquialism meaning to reveal facts previously hidden. The facts were usually hidden from a specific target audience or theatrical audience.
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let the cat out of the bag - Wiktionary
It's the sister idiom to "never buy a pig in a poke." (A "poke" is a bag.) If you intend to buy a pig, but the dishonest merchant has instead put a cat in the bag, his deception is revealed when the cat is let out of the bag.
That definition uses the word "accidentally". This could also apply to revealing a secret on purpose.