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
This is entre nous, though; if I tell you I am a reprobate, it is in confidence.
From Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel by May Agnes Fleming
I would not speak ill of your husband, since he is dead; but, entre nous, he was a horrid brute.
From Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume by Octave Feuillet
Anyhow, the new "manteau de sûreté" is absolutely booming, and entre nous, chérie, people who never wear anything more valuable than sequins and paste are quite falling over each other to get thief-proof wraps!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
If it turned out that the paraffin was the peccant element, I should be, entre nous, rather glad, because it diminished the facility of the work.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
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