Read full poem →Our Host answer'd and said; "I grant it thee.
Roger, tell on; and look that it be good,
For many a pasty hast thou letten blood,
Dictionary Entry
(usually childish) To inform on, to rat out; to tell a person in authority that someone else has done something wrong.
In a Sentence
“My sister told on me when I didn't go to school.”
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Poetry examples for “tell on”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.