under wraps

1. Concealed or secret, as in The design for the new plant is under wraps. This idiom frequently is put as keep under wraps, meaning “keep secret,” as in Let's keep this theory under wraps until we've tested it sufficiently. It alludes to covering something completely by wrapping it up. [1930s]

Example Sentences

But private-asset management firms often keep basic insights about those assets under wraps.

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Epstein survivor Annie Farmer said that keeping the files under wraps amounted to “institutional betrayal”.

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Speaking to CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, Greene told host Dana Bash that while she still supports the president, she does not agree with his efforts to keep the Epstein files under wraps.

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There were other circumstances that kept Harris under wraps, particularly in the early part of Biden’s presidency.

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Specific details of the spending plan are being kept under wraps until the finance minister unveils the budget in parliament on Tuesday.

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