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Meanings of tell on in English

Spanish
traicionar

Give away information about somebody.

      traicionar
      Usage of tell on in English
      1
      Yitzhak said in a mock whisper, Please don't tell on us, Judd.
      The book of spies
      2
      But look...I know you think I'll tell on you, but I won't.
      After midnight
      3
      As soon as he was gone his sister would tell on him.
      Cry for the strangers
      4
      The lack of exercise and manual labor began to tell on Ben.
      One Basket
      5
      I had no desire to tell on their little drug smuggling problem.
      Rebel island
      6
      A bit of a secret, so please don't tell on me, okay?
      Boston noir
      7
      For my own sake, I had no disposition to tell on her.
      Autobiography of mark twain, vol. 1
      8
      The lack of exercise and manual labour began to tell on Ben.
      Half Portions
      9
      When he ran to your papa and tried to tell on you?
      Dragonshadow
      10
      Can't tell on board ship what you might want in a hurry.
      Typhoon
      11
      It's a name as I never see or heard tell on before.
      The Weapons of Mystery
      12
      I knowed my brother runned off, but I wouldn't tell on him.
      Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
      13
      Fust t'ing you know, I'm gwine tell on some ob 'em, too.
      Sandy
      14
      The Tories have a story to tell on the economy and about Labour.
      The Guardian
      15
      I can't tell on this particular application but yeah, we can know that.
      The new yorker
      16
      A family's decadent past could tell on its children, dragging the race backwards.
      The suspicions of mr. whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing...
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      United Kingdom
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      United States of America
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