• Optional@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I noted that too. I don’t think it means ratted them out; my guess is it means he didn’t give them the intel/money/people/thing they wanted from him yet.

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      20 hours ago

      That’s the way I’ve heard it used. This person knows/is complicit/is involved in a thing but they ain’t said shit yet. It would be the opposite of the old cliche phrase about a stool pigeon singing.