give (oneself) away

To reveal or make known—usually unintentionally—something about oneself, such as one's actions, intentions, ideas, guilt, etc. Margaret had been embezzling money from the corporate account for years, but she finally gave herself away when she claimed her two-month trip to Paris as a business expense. I wanted my acceptance to Harvard to be a surprise, but I gave myself away when I mentioned about moving in the autumn.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aron	AH-rawn (Polish), AH-ron (Croatian)	Polish, Croatian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic
Seong-Hyeon	sung-hyun	Korean
Berta	BER-tah (Polish, German, Italian)	Polish, Czech, Hungarian, German, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Slovene
Acre	['eikə]
Peterson	['pi:təsn]
Tomlinson	['tɔmlinsn]