in secret

Idioms  

1. Unknown to others, privately. For example, They met in secret, or, as Shakespeare put it in Love's Labour's Lost (5:2): “One word in secret.” [Second half of 1400s]

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Example Sentences

She steals a famous scribe’s manuscript and improves on it in secret.

From Los Angeles Times

She cries in secret and has bulletproof confidence in public.

From Los Angeles Times

Today, much of the back-and-forth between artists and the White House plays out in public, rather than in secret files.

From The Wall Street Journal

More than half of adults in relationships spent in secret on a range of products, according to the research by investment platform AJ Bell and pollster Opinium.

From BBC

The days when dictators could live in gilded exile with fortunes in secret Swiss bank accounts are mostly over, primarily because of global mechanisms for adjudicating human-rights abuses and tracking ill-gotten gains.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• clandestinely
• covertly
• furtively
• personally
• privately
• quietly
• stealthily
• surreptitiously