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A list of phrases related to the word "secret"...
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A Perfect
Spy
( John Le Carre book )
A Saucerful of
Secrets
( Pink Floyd album )
A little bird told me
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Ancient Chinese secret ( Calgon advertising slogan )
As
sly
as a fox
Beard the lion in his
den
Behind closed doors
Behind the curtain
Behind the scenes
Behind your back
Between you and me
Between you and me and the wall
Between you, me and the bedpost
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Between you, me and the gatepost
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Bolt hole
Bottled things up
Bottled up
Bridget Jones's
Diary
( Helen Fielding book and Renee Zellweger / Colin Firth movie )
Chatham House rules
Cloak
and dagger
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Closet
queen
Code
bloat
Code
monkey ( slang term for a computer programmer )
Come out of the
closet
Consult your
diary
Crack the
code
Dark horse
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Deep dark secret
Den
of iniquity
Den
of vice
Dirty little secret
Do You Want To Know A Secret? ( Beatles song )
Don't quote me
Dress
code
Eleven secret herbs and spices ( claim made for the recipe of Kentucky Fried Chicken )
Face down
For your eyes only
Give someone the mushroom treatment
Give the game away
Go to see a man about a dog
Guilty pleasure
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of
Secrets
( J. K. Rowling book )
Hidden
Web ( the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine )
Hidden
agenda
Hidden
depths
Hidden
gem
Hidden
in plain sight
Hidden
treasure
Hide from the light
Hide your light under a bushel
Highway
Code
Holding your cards close to your chest
Holed up
Hush it up
Hush money
Hush up
I refuse to reveal my sources
I
spy
I
spy
with my little eye
I'm a secret lemonade drinker ( R White's advertising slogan )
I've fallen and I can't get up! ( LifeCall
Personal
Emergency Response Systems advertising slogan )
If I tell you I will have to shoot you
If I tell you, I'll have to kill you
In camera
In confidence
In the dark
In the shadows
Inside story
Into the lion's
den
It came out in the conversation
It's a
mystery
to me
Keep a lid on it
Keep it dark
Keep it to yourself
Keep it under your hat
Keep schtum
Keep to yourself
Keep under wraps
Keep your lips sealed
Keep your mouth shut
Keep your own counsel
Keep your trap shut
Kept in the dark
Kiss and tell
Laugh up your sleeve
Let into the secret
Let the cat out of the bag
Lymon is the secret of Sprite ( Sprite advertising slogan )
Magical
Mystery
Tour ( Beatles song )
Make no secret of
More than meets the eye
My Own
Private
Idaho ( River Phoenix movie )
My lips are sealed
Mystery
meat
Name no names
Name, rank, and serial number
No comment
Off limits
On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( James Bond movie George Lazenby )
On a need to know basis
On the quiet
On the
sly
Open the kimono
Open your big mouth
Personal
shopper
Personal
space
Personal
trainer
Pillow talk
Private
Dancer ( Tina Turner album )
Private
hell
Private
life
Private
parts
Riddle wrapped up in an
enigma
( Winston Churchill quotation )
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Secret Santa
Secret ingredient
Secret weapon
Seven for a secret, never to be told ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Shrouded in
mystery
Skeleton in the cupboard
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Sly
dog
Spill the beans
Squirrel away
Stealth wealth
Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross
Code
( UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan )
That would be telling
The Bamboo Curtain ( notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China )
The Boscombe Valley
Mystery
( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Da Vinci
Code
( Tom Hanks movie )
The
Mystery
Lady ( Nickname of Shondell Alfred )
The Secret Garden ( Frances Hodgson Burnett book )
The
Spy
Who Came In From The Cold ( John Le Carre novel )
The
Spy
Who Loved Me ( James Bond movie )
The daily
diary
of the American dream ( Wall Street Journal advertising slogan )
The low down
The secret is in schweppavesence ( Schweppes advertising slogan )
The secret is out
The walls have ears
This time it's
personal
( Jaws The Revenge advertising tagline )
Tinker Tailor Soldier
Spy
( John Le Carre book )
True to you ( Julius Baer
Private
Bank advertising slogan )
Under cover of darkness
Under the radar
Undercover cop
Up close and
personal
Up your sleeve
Walls have ears
What is the secret of Schhh ( Schweppes advertising slogan )
Wild horses wouldn't drag that from me
Word in your ear
Word in your shell-like
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You've Got To Hide Your Love Away ( The Beatles song )