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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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? References in classic literature
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 More results

? References in classic literature

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

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