The middle of the 1700s, farmers would put young pigs in a burlap ‘bag’ to carry them to market. Often, they were sold that way. And often, many a buyer found that the pigs in the bag were cats. This led to the expression that ‘letting the cat out of the bag’ meant to reveal a hidden truth. In the case of the buyer, that the pigs he thought he was buying were, in fact, cats.
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