secretly;privately秘密地;私下地 I'm telling you this in confidence;please don't tell anyone else.这件事我只告诉你一个人,请别告诉别人。
take sb into one's confidence
Idiom(s): take sb into one's confidence
Theme: TRUST
to trust someone with confidential information; to tell a secret to someone and trust the person to keep the secret. • We are good friends, hut I didn't feel I could take her into my confidence. • I know something very important about Jean. Can I take you into my confidence?
confidence game Also, confidence trick; con game. A swindle in which the victim is defrauded after his or her trust has been won. For example, The police warned of a confidence game in which people were asked to turn over valuables for a so-called appraisal, or The typical confidence trick is easy to spot if you know what to look for, or I almost let myself be taken in by her con game—she seemed so sincere. These terms, which use confidence in the sense of “trust,” date from the mid-1800s. They also gave rise to confidence man (or con man) for the swindler.
take into one's confidence
take into one's confidence Trust someone with a secret, as in She took me into her confidence and admitted that she was quitting next month. This idiom uses confidence in the sense of “trust,” a usage dating from the late 1500s.
An confidence idiom dictionary is a great resource for writers, students, and anyone looking to expand their vocabulary. It contains a list of words with similar meanings with confidence, allowing users to choose the best word for their specific context.
Dicionário de palavras semelhantes, Diferentes palavras, Sinônimos, Expressões idiomáticas para Idioma confidence