Let On

Definition: Let On

Let On

Verb

1. Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Let On

Crosswords: Let On

He doesn't like to let on but he cares, about the people here and in town, about the Indians in the territory. (Chisum; writing credit: Andrew J. Fenady)

While we're in other worlds, we can't let on where we're from. (Kingdom Hearts; writing credit: Billy Gallo; Robert Gillings)

Don't let on any more than you have to. (Miller's Crossing; writing credit: Joel Coen ; Ethan Coen)

Don't let on, don't say she's broke my heart (Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter; performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

I never let on that i was down (Zero; performing artist: The smashing pumpkins)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "let on": let on about smth. ♦ To let on. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏تساهل (indulge, indulgence, lay off, lenience, leniency, tolerate, toleration), ‏أفشى سرا (betray, blab, disclose, divulge, expose, repeat). (various references)

Czech

prořeknout se (let on about smth., open one's big mouth), dìlat se, že (let on about smth.). (various references)

Finnish

älä kieli! (don't blab! don't let on). (various references)

French

révéler. (various references)

German

Lass dir nichts anmerken! (Don't let on anything!), Laß dir nichts anmerken! (Don't let on anything!). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�'לות סו�" (betray, confide, divulge, give away, let the cat out of the bag, spill the beans, telltale). (various references)

Hungarian

elárul (betray, disembosom, to betray, to disclose, to display, to let on, to let out, to manifest, to scream, to spill the beans, to uncover), bevall (admit, confess, disbosom, own up, to acknowledge, to admit, to avow, to confess, to let on, to make a confession, to own, to spill one's guts). (various references)

Italian

rivelare (bare, detect, expose, impart, reveal, reveal oneself, show, spill out, tell, to demodulate, unbosom, uncover, unfold, unlock). (various references)

Pig Latin

etlay onay

Portuguese

disparar (bolt, discharge, fire, go on, gun, poop, pop, shoot, to blow up, to explode, to open, to shoot, to trip, touch off). (various references)

Romanian

divulga (babble, disclose, divulge, spill the beans). (various references)

Spanish

revelar el secreto (give away, let, say the secret), descargarse (discharge, dump, unburden, unload, wreak one's anger), descargar (abort, abreact, deal, discharge, download, empty, offload, release, unload, wreak one's anger, write off), dejar salir (let off, let out), cantar (chant, cough, edge, jingle, perform, sing, song, sound, squeal). (various references)

Swedish

låtsas om, låtsas (affect, assume, dissemble, dissimulate, feign, pretend, pretends, sham), tillstå (acknowledge, admit, confess, own), skvallra (blab, blow the gaff, chew the fat, gossip, natter, peach, sneak, talk, tattle, tell, tell tales, tittle tattle), avslöja (betray, come clean, debunk, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, lay bare, let out, nail, open, relieve, reveal, spill out, tattle, unclose, uncover, unfold, unmask, unveil). (various references)

Turkish

yapar gibi görünmek (make as if to, make pretence of doing, make pretense of doing, play at, play on, play upon, pretend, sham), sezdirmek (adumbrate, make feel, make understand, shadow forth, shadow out, suggest), belli etmek (argue, evince, express, give vent to, make clear, register, reveal, shadow, shadow forth, shadow out, show, sound, Telegraph, vent), açığa vurmak (betray, disclose, divulge, evince, express, externalize, give vent to, lay bare, reveal, spill, uncloak, unclose, uncork, unseal, unveil, utter, vent, ventilate, yield, yield up). (various references)

Ukranian 

удавати (affect, assume, counterfeit, make believe, profess), розкривати (accuse, bare, disclose, open, open out, unclothe, uncover, unearth, unfold). (various references)

Misspellings

"Let On" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: leton. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lento.

-1 letter: enol, leno, lent, lone, noel, note, tole, tone.

-2 letters: eon, let, lot, net, not, ole, one, tel, ten, toe, ton.

-3 letters: el, en, et, lo, ne, no, oe, on, to.

+1 letter: entoil, etalon, lentos, lepton, loment, melton, molten, stolen, telson, tolane, tonlet.

+2 letters: anethol, anolyte, cholent, elation, elution, elytron, entoils, etalons, ethanol, hotline, lactone, lection, lentigo, lentoid, leptons, letdown, lomenta, loments, longest, meltons, menthol, moonlet, neolith, noblest, noctule, notable, notedly, novelty, omental, opulent, outline, polenta, potline, retinol, solvent, stollen, taloned, tangelo, telamon, telsons, tenfold, toenail, tolanes, tollmen, toluene, tonlets, topline, towline, townlet, violent, volante.

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