entre nous
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of entre nous
Borrowed into English from French around 1680–90
Example Sentences
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One on one, with a staff member, a reporter, or a lawmaker, his antennae are finely tuned, his style entre nous.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2010
Fairfax, Va. Amused Sirs: Of course, entre nous, you are forced to be servile to public opinion, and cannot call your mind your own�when you are in your office.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there, entre nous, it is possible that she would have preferred first to transform him into a husband, regardless of a more exact rendering of the classical metamorphosis.
From The Grandee by Palacio Valdés, Armando
"We only buy from R—— when he is discreet, and does not overcharge; which, entre nous, he is very apt to do."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
This, entre nous, does not seem to have met completely with Lady Julia's approval, and I think she may have attributed to me a circumstance in which certainly I was not an active cause.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James
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