Michelle Kaplan
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And those kids were not fun to be around because they were always tattling.
What we would call as a bonus word for today, tattletale.
You're a tattletale.
And the verb is to tattle on someone is to go and tell the teacher that this kid did this and that kid did that.
And there can be adult tattling too, right?
Ratting out, tattling.
A co-worker tells the boss you've been leaving early every day, right?
That's not great.
Siblings will do that to each other for sure.
Let's talk more about rats.
Yeah.
That's one way to use it.
And we'll talk about a few more in just a minute.
Yeah.
So there are a lot more here, Michelle.
You know, for example, to rat someone out.
That's the first one that came to mind when we were earlier in the episode.
To rat someone out is to tell someone an authority or person in charge of someone else's wrongdoing.
Right.