Tag: Keep (something) on the down low
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The genie is out of the bottle
English Idiom: The genie is out of the bottle Imagine you try to have a surprise party for your brother’s birthday. You want to keep it on the down low, but when his girlfriend accidentally tells him, the genie is out of the bottle. You may hear this expression when a secret is not a…
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Hush-hush
Word of the Day: Hush-hush If you are in a romantic relationship with someone at work, you may not want your other coworkers to know, so you try to keep the relationship hush-hush. To keep something secret, you must keep it hush-hush. It’s never easy to keep things hush-hush. If two people know, it’s no…
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(Keep something) on the down low
English Idiom: (Keep something) on the down low There are some things that you do not tell everybody; you keep them secret. In other words, you keep them on the down low. Perhaps you are eating too many doughnuts. That is something you may not want your doctor to know about, even though what she doesn’t…
