keep under wraps

Idioms and Phrases

see under wraps .

Example Sentences

The pictures released by Ferrari, which are likely to disguise key design areas of the car that the team want to keep under wraps for as long as possible, show a redesigned nose and front wing and extensively reshaped bodywork as the team seek to find the consistent, predictable downforce that was often elusive for them last year.

From BBC

She had been reading studies and articles that showed psychedelic patients revealing truths they wanted to keep under wraps.

From Slate

The three handwritten pages posted by conservative talk-show host Steven Crowder this week offered a motive for the deadly March 27 Covenant School shooting — the perpetrator wrote of wanting to kill white kids with “privileges”— but no answers as to why law enforcement officials have fought so hard to keep under wraps the writings of 28-year-old Aiden Hale, born Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who was killed by police in the incident.

From Washington Times

But they have a crime problem of their own that they want to keep under wraps.

From Salon

Like the Nightbeast attacks in Boggs Ferry, which they wanted to keep under wraps until the monstruo was stronger, so that the Gran would be no match for it.

From Literature

Related Words

• crush
• inhibit
• muffle
• quash
• quell
• restrain
• squelch
• stifle
• subdue
• subjugate
• suppress