I love tea, so I took it quite literally at first.
Also today I learned the difference between "spilling the tea" (to gossip, not necessarily a secret) vs "spilling the beans" (to tell people secret information)
Could also be a reference to The Boston Tea Party. That invovled imported Chinese goods, over taxation, and happened on December 16, 1773 (anyone want to figure out the Delta on that one?).
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts.
The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts. The Sons of Liberty strongly opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights.
I love tea, so I took it quite literally at first.
Also today I learned the difference between "spilling the tea" (to gossip, not necessarily a secret) vs "spilling the beans" (to tell people secret information)
I never knew this!
Could also be a reference to The Boston Tea Party. That invovled imported Chinese goods, over taxation, and happened on December 16, 1773 (anyone want to figure out the Delta on that one?).