take into one's confidence



take into one's confidence

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.
See also: confidence, take

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Sam (1)SAMEnglish
Azad-Persian, Indian, Hindi, Azerbaijani, Turkish
VilĈJoVEEL-chyoEsperanto
JonatanYO-nah-tahn (German)Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German
BerthaBER-tah (German), BUR-thə (English)German, English, Ancient Germanic
Solvej-Danish