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
Takumitah-koo-meeJapanese
Micaela-Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Nani-Hawaiian
RomÁNa-Hungarian
Vishal-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali
Ridwana-Arabic