come out with
English
Verb
come out with (third-person singular simple present comes out with, present participle coming out with, simple past came out with, past participle come out with)
- (transitive) To say (something) unexpectedly.
- He came out with a very dubious excuse.
- (transitive) To say (something) in a plainspoken way instead of euphemistically or obliquely, after reluctantly hesitating to do so.
- To make (something) public or available to the public.
Translations
spit it out — see spit it out
See also
- beat around the bush (intransitive but otherwise antonymous to the "plainspoken" sense)
- out with it
- spit it out