mmm, delicious idioms
SPILL THE BEANS In Ancient Greece, citizens would elect council members by placing white and black beans in special clay jars. A white bean meant ‘yes’ and a black bean meant ‘no’ (a baked bean was probably a donkey vote). The thing is, voting was meant to be anonymous. Nobody knew the colour of your bean. Unless the jar Clumsycles was holding sort of… slipped and cracked open, and the beans were spilled all over the floor, and they had to start the whole damn thing again. This is possibly where the idiom ‘spill the beans’ comes from, i.e. giving away a
