Er. What else have they been telling you they say, Laurie? Also, while you were away, “takes the badger” replaced “takes the biscuit” in the UK.
Ok I’ve just found out that Americans say ‘spill the tea’ when they mean ‘spill the beans’ and I wondered if it was a very very subtle bit of transatlantic shade but then I remembered Americans don’t export snide smug passive aggression around the world like we do.
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You know, you really get on my elbows sometimes, Neil. I’ve got a nose to pick with you.
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Can I interest you in a little movie called Paris is Burning? Believe it actually might be on Netflix right now. It should bring you up to speed on all the tea.
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Seen it twice. It’s on Netflix now?!
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Being (2018)
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Ok, so "spill the tea" and "spill the beans" can be but are not usually the same thing. It is Black American LGBTQ slang.https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/1076230085340946433?s=19 …
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(Also, "subtle shade" is redundant. It's like saying "dead corpse.")
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Not exactly. Spill the beans is to accidentally divulging info. Spill the tea is to gossip. "Spill the tea" also has origins in the gay community and has only entered mainstream speech in the last few years, whereas "spill the beans" has been said for decades in the US.
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*divulge
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