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take into one's confidence



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Idioms and Phrases

Trust someone with a secret, as in She took me into her confidence and admitted that she was quitting next month . This idiom uses confidence in the sense of “trust,” a usage dating from the late 1500s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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