to tell on

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To tell of; to tell about.


"Well," says the Gineral, "I am glad I didn't understand him, for now it stumps me considerable. Major, who was that?" "Why," says I, "Gineral, he is the son of a man I've heard you tell on a thousand times."--Maj. Downing's Letters, 29.

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