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Meaning of under the rose | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C1

Definitions

In secret; secretly, privately.

idiomatic

Examples

“‘If you become⟳ the purchaser of the East Lynne estate, Mr Carlyle, it must be under the rose.’”
“We are organising (but this is quite under the rose as yet) a company for the production of furniture and decoration of all kinds, for the sale of which we are going to open⟳ an actual shop⟳!”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

under the spotlight under weigh underadditively underassertively underbreath underbrow

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