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tattle AmE

But if some of her women knew what was going on, they saw no need to tell tales.

There was no need to tell tales out of turn.

But there was more than his voice to tell tales with.

A girl she could rock and tell tales of days gone by.

His men were sitting around the fire, telling tales of war.

Brown also tells tales of living and working in the country music industry.

It is you who have been telling tales for the most of today.

"Then we are going to teach you not to tell tales."

It is good, however, that neither man will be able to tell tales of what has happened for some time.

But turned and telling tales, or setting him up; who knew?

The Oracle is said to tell tales of the past to give hope for the future.

He was cheating himself and telling tales about the others.

Many tenants told tales of having been out on the streets before.

As for the general telling tales out of school, he can be forgiven.

People in various neighborhoods told tales of days without delivery.

Well, if he was just telling tales then Pike had a few of his own to share.

Pretty soon we were all telling tales about imaginary events that might have happened.

Many of the people had gathered around the fire that night, listening as the old ones told tales.

Red Ron would probably listen, but that's too much like telling tales out of school for me.

The birds and beasts do not tell tales of that sort.

If you wish to drink and tell tales, do so, but quietly.

Pimps were girls who had told tales on them in school.

It wasn't like him to tell tales out of school, or to go outside his own power structure for help.

They had had four days to tell tales around town.

No one can tell tales about him out of school because he'll tell them first.

As such, tattling should not be part of your plan.

She had only the power to tattle on us, and really not even that.

Anyway, even if he tried to tattle on her, no one was home to believe him.

Each player can tattle only twice in a single game.

She should not have paid attention to her cousin's tattling.

He could run and tattle, surely, but there'd be no one to believe him.

There is much more to tattling than issuing a simple news report.

"You're the one who went and tattled to my father.

I would not tattle that he had already missed his first lesson.

"Telling how someone in the family needs help isn't tattling."

She said, in an informative tone, like a little girl tattling.

I could have told him that she'd threatened me, but somehow it seemed like tattling.

Al thinks he can score by tattling on the other guy to the authorities.

But there was no way he was going to tattle.

"You see, they want me to tattle on a friend of mine.

You're not the only one who can tattle little secrets!"

If this girl should tattle, I will never live down the scandal."

I knew too much, you see, and I was not above tattling to get my way.

They'd rather tattle in secret than come smartly forward and tell you what they know.

One of the girls tattled, and she was promptly brought before the tribunal.

Maybe he didn't want to risk running into Cornell, having tattled on him.

Who knew what that troublesome woman might have tattled from her eternal place in the world of the dead.

I feared the answer: I'd soon be dead and couldn't tattle.

So he'd tattled on her some when they were kids and she'd gotten spanked for it.

"Actually, the agreement was just to tattle about you coming to our clubs.