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Passage 23 A bag is useful and the word “bag” is useful, too. It reminds us of an interesting phrase, i.e. “to let the cat out the bag”. In meaning it is the same as “to tell the secret”. And there is an old interesting story about it. Long ago, when farmers wanted to sell chickens at the market, most of the time they would just throw the chickens in cloth bags. But cats were cheaper than chickens, so many farmers would put cats into the cloth bag instead of chickens. One day, a woman asked a man for chicken. The man gave her a cloth bag in which there was a cat. The woman begged to see the ch