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
Marylamah-RI-lahPolish
Vimala-Tamil
MadisonMAD-i-sənEnglish
Dessislava-Bulgarian
Tatianatah-TYAH-nah (Russian, Polish, Spanish, Italian), TAH-tee-ah-nah (Finnish), ta-tee-AN-ə (English), ta-TYAN-ə (English)Russian, Slovak, Bulgarian, Romanian, Polish, Greek, Georgian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish
Archana-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil