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tell on

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Legal, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.07 sec.
tell someone on someone
to tattle to someone about someone. I'm going to tell your mother on you! I'll tell the teacher on you!
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tell on someone

to report someone's bad behavior; to tattle on someone. If you do that again, I'll tell on you! Please don't tell on me. I'm in enough trouble as it is.
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tell on somebody
to give information about bad behavior to someone in authority None of his friends told on Louie, not even when he slipped live grasshoppers into a mailbox.
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