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May i please have help with the idiomatic expression

Somebody might blow the whistle on your plan.[/b]
 
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To blow the whistle on something is to reveal information about it. Presumably, that is information that the person involved does not want revealed.
 
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A pereson who makes public problems in companies or the government, etc, is called a 'whistleblower'. ;-0
 
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