in confidence
Not for sharing
In confidence describes communication meant to be kept private between the parties involved.
To tell someone something in confidence is to trust them not to share it: She told me in confidence that she's leaving the company.
The phrase implies an obligation of secrecy on the listener's part.
- secretConcealed information
- behind closed doorsIn private, unobserved
- discretionCareful judgment in speech
- between usShared in confidence
- hushAbsence of sound
just between us · hush-hush · keep it quiet · clandestine · inner circle · sub rosa · whisper · sworn to secrecy · off the record · under wraps · promise · classified information · privilege · intimacy · concealment · need to know · attorney-client privilege · privacy
- secrecysecrecy, secret, secrets, classified, hidden
- confidentialsecret, private, classified, undisclosed, hush-hush
- secretssecrecy, secret, trade secret, secrets, state secret
- Candor Phrasesto be honest, truth be told, honestly, frankly, to tell the truth
in confidencepublicly
In open view
on the record · openly · in public · on the air · in the open
in confidenceoff the cuff
Spontaneous, unrehearsed speech
casually · indiscreetly · carelessly · loosely · in passing
confidence, confident, confide, confidential, confidently, unconfident, confiding, overconfidence, overconfident