in confidence

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in (the strictest) confidence

trusting that something said will not be told to anyone else She told me her plans in confidence, and I really can't talk to anyone about them.

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Astor, though intrusted to them in confidence, and dependent, in a great measure, upon secrecy at the outset for its success, and inquired whether they, as British subjects, could lawfully engage in it. Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context Bounderby, with his thumbs in the arms of his coat, and jerking his head and shutting his eyes in confidence with the opposite wall: 'how it happens. Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context			in blood in blossom in book in brief in broad daylight in broad strokes in bulk in business in cahoots in care of in case in case of in character in charge in charge (of in check in chorus in close quarters in clover in clutches in cold blood in cold storage in concert in conclusion in condition in confidence in connection with in consequence in consideration of in contact in contempt in control of in corner in cups in custody in debt in deep in deep shit in deep water in defiance in demand in denial in depth in detail in dire straits in disguise in dispute in drag in dribs and drabs in droves in due course			in common in common in common in common in common boundaries with in common with In Communion with Christ in company with in comparison in comparison in comparison in comparison in comparison In comparison of in compensation In competition In competition In conceit with In Conceivably Clear To the Most Casual Observer in concert in concert in conclusion in conclusion in conclusion in condition in condition in condition in condition in condition in condition in confidence in conflict in conflict with in conformity in conformity with law In Conjunction With In conjunctivis oportet utramque partem esse veram in connection with in connection with in connexion in connexion in connexion in connexion in conscience in conscience in conscience in conscience in consequence in consequence in consequence in consequence In consequence of In consequence of in consideration of in consideration of in consideration of in consideration of in consideration of in consideration of In consimili casu consimile debet esse remedium in consonance

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