in secret

Idioms and Phrases

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]

Example Sentences

You can call in secret: they will protect your privacy.

From Los Angeles Times

Reality seeps into “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” in multiple ways, including ones that writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof couldn’t have imagined back when he shot this absorbing drama in secret.

From Los Angeles Times

Powell had presidential ambitions - that was why the summit was held in secret.

From BBC

He was arrested on 25 October accused of embezzling a huge sum of money from state coffers and depositing it in secret accounts in the Cayman Islands.

From BBC

A lawsuit claims that an ethnic studies steering committee created by a Santa Ana school board met in secret and served as an incubator for antisemitic coursework.

From Los Angeles Times