Word of the Day: Hush-hush
If you are in a romantic relationship with someone at work, you may not want your other co-workers to know, so you try to keep the relationship hush-hush.
Office gossip is bad enough, right? I mean the last thing you want at work is for everyone to know that you’re dating one of your colleagues.
Both of you do your best to keep your relationship on the down low. Eventually, though, no matter how hard you try, one of your coworkers will realize something is going on.
Most likely it’ll be one of your female colleagues because men are oblivious to what goes on at the office.
Often men have no idea that people are romantically involved until they receive a wedding invitation.
Sometimes when people lose their job, they are too embarrassed to tell other people, especially their wives, and they keep it hush-hush.
This used to happen quite often in Asian countries. I’ve heard about Korean or Japanese men keeping up the facade of having a job for months after they have been let go.
Yeah, it’s hard to believe, but I’ve heard of guys who woke up every day and ‘went to work’ like usual to keep up appearances.
Without a job to go to, they would hang out in a park on the other side of town so no one would recognize them.
Then, when ‘quitting time’ rolled around, they would head home and arrive at their regular time. No one would be the wiser until the money started to run out.
Whenever we want to keep something a secret, we do our best to keep it hush-hush.
The CIA and FBI are pretty good at keep secrets. They’re quite good at discovering the secrets of others too.
Canada has CSIS. Never heard of them? That’s because they’re super good at keeping things hush-hush.
