hush-hush
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˌhush-ˈhush / $ ˈ‧ ‧/ adjective informal SECRETvery secret 秘密的 Everything was very hush-hush. 一切都神神秘秘的。► see thesaurus at secret
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hush-hush• The date and location of the operation were very hush-hush.• And this is meant to be hush-hush.• What you two so impertinently called my hush-hush experi-ment.• His death was really hush-hush. It was so covered up that you wondered if it wasn't a suicide.• There was a hush-hush meeting with Eliot and I was to keep out of the way.• Some sort of hush-hush oceanography, probably for oil.• 'The Manhattan Project' was the insiders' name for the hush-hush project.• As a matter of fact it was rather a hush-hush sort of business.ˌhush-ˈhush adjectiveChineseSyllable
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hush-hush
ˌhush-ˈhush / $ ˈ‧ ‧/
adjective informal
very secret:
Everything was very hush-hush.
▪ secret known about by only a few people, who have agreed not to tell anyone else: a secret meeting place | The details of the proposal must remain secret.
▪confidential used about information, especially in business or government, that is secret and not intended to be shown or told to other people: a highly confidential report | Employees’ personal details are treated as strictly confidential.
▪classified used about information that the government has ordered to be kept secret from most people: He was accused of passing on classified information to the Russians in the 1950s.
▪sensitive used about information that is kept secret because there would be problems if the wrong people knew it: A teenager managed to hack into sensitive US Air Force files.
▪covert [only before noun] used about things that are done secretly, especially by a government or official organization: a CIA covert operation
▪undercover [usually before noun] used about things that are done secretly by the police in order to catch criminals or find out information: Detectives arrested the suspect after a five-day undercover operation.
▪underground an underground organization or newspaper is one that operates or is produced secretly and opposes the government: Her father was a member of the underground resistance movement in France during World War II.
▪clandestine /klænˈdestən, klænˈdestɪn/ secret and often illegal or immoral: clandestine meetings | his involvement in a clandestine operation to sell arms to Iran | a clandestine love affair
▪hush-hush informal used about information or activities that are kept officially secret: He was put in charge of some hush-hush military project. | I’ve no idea what he does – it’s all very hush-hush.
ˌhush-ˈhush / $ ˈ‧ ‧/
adjective informalvery secret:
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