cloak in secrecy

cloak (someone or something) in secrecy

To hide someone or something from another person or from public view. The residents complained that the board cloaked its decision process in secrecy, not allowing anyone to see the final plan.

cloak someone or something in secrecy

Fig. to hide or conceal someone or something in secrecy. Patrick cloaked his activities in secrecy. The agents cloaked the spy in secrecy, making her identity a mystery.

See also: cloak, secrecy

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

See also:

cloak
cloak (someone or something) in secrecy
secrecy
keep (something) on the hush
keep (something) on the hush-hush
have (one's) hide
have hide
come clean with (someone) about (something)
come clean with someone about something
keep it on the down-low

References in periodicals archive

"To cloak in secrecy a revision of the Freedom of Information Act is not only contradictory, but makes a mockery of the transparency and openness which it was intended to engender.

Secrecy ruling 'is mockery'

词组	cloak in secrecy
释义	cloak in secrecy cloak (someone or something) in secrecy To hide someone or something from another person or from public view. The residents complained that the board cloaked its decision process in secrecy, not allowing anyone to see the final plan. See also: cloak, secrecy Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. cloak someone or something in secrecy Fig. to hide or conceal someone or something in secrecy. Patrick cloaked his activities in secrecy. The agents cloaked the spy in secrecy, making her identity a mystery. See also: cloak, secrecy McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: cloak cloak (someone or something) in secrecy secrecy keep (something) on the hush keep (something) on the hush-hush have (one's) hide have hide come clean with (someone) about (something) come clean with someone about something keep it on the down-low References in periodicals archive "To cloak in secrecy a revision of the Freedom of Information Act is not only contradictory, but makes a mockery of the transparency and openness which it was intended to engender. Secrecy ruling 'is mockery'
随便看	do something more in sorrow than in anger do something on/along the way do something on sight do something on somebody's/your terms do something on spec do something on the sly (do something) or get off the pot do something out of turn do (something) standing on (one's) head do something standing on your head do (something) the hard way do something the hard way do (something) to death do something to death (do something) to excess do something until you are blue in the face do (something) up brown do something willy-nilly do something with a vengeance do something with one hand behind your back do something without stint doss doss about doss around doss down