confide

confide (something) to (one)

To share some secret with one, usually with the understanding that one will not reveal it to anyone else. You can confide anything to me—I'm your best friend! This issue is just so embarrassing that I can't possibly confide it to anyone.
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confide in (one)

To share one's secrets with someone, usually a trusted person unlikely to divulge them. Of course you can confide in me—I'm your best friend! This issue is just so embarrassing that I can't possibly confide in anyone about it.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

confide in someone

to trust someone with one's secrets or personal matters. Sally always confided in her sister Ann. She didn't feel that she could confide in her mother.
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confide something in someone

 and confide something to someone
to tell a secret or private matter to someone, trusting that the person will not reveal the secret. I learned not to confide anything secret in Bob. Tom really needed to confide his inner fears to someone.
See also: confide
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • drive (one) out of office
  • force (one) out of office
  • force out of office
  • give (one) (one's) head
  • give head
  • give somebody their head
  • give someone their head
  • cooking for one
  • 1FTR
  • as one door closes, another (one) opens
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"While there's a lot of technology under the hood that makes ScreenShield possible, the great news is that there are no strange gimmicks for users (e.g., it doesn't require them to hold their finger on the screen)AaAaAeAc-AaAa just works as expected," Confide said in a post about the new technology.
If you haven't such a person you can confide in, turn first to God and then to your minister.
"After a year on the market the usage level of Confide is quite low," said Robert Miller, president of Direct Access Diagnostics, in announcing the withdrawal of the product from the market.
Confide, another encrypted messaging app that allows users to send temporary messages to one another, (https://www.axios.com/confide-the-new-app-for-paranoid-republicans-2246297664.html) gained popularity among White House staffers earlier this year, though may have fallen out of favor after (http://www.ibtimes.com/confide-private-research-shows-app-was-vulnerable-attack-2504982) reports of major security flaws that plagued the app and (https://www.wired.com/2017/02/white-house-encryption-confide-app/) questions about the legality of government officials conducting business through a service that does not preserve communications.
"I can't confide in them the way I used to," he says.
That program, however, may not happen soon, officials confide. Right now, the Division of General Services sells commercial property outright at auction and the new policies do not appear to change that at this time.
End-to-end encryption app Confide, which is used by staff at the White House, has been hit with a lawsuit for failing to deliver promised security features, (https://www.scribd.com/document/345796535/Auman-v-Confide-Filed-Complaint?irgwc=1&content=10079&campaign=Skimbit%2C%20Ltd.&ad_group=&keyword=ft750noi&source=impactradius&medium=affiliate) documents uploaded by (https://www.recode.net/2017/4/20/15374002/confide-screenshot-lawsuit-secure-messaging) Recode show.
I'M SCARED TO CONFIDE IN MY MUM Dear Coleen I FIND it hard to confide in my mum.
Fearing the worst, and convinced his ticker might pack up at any second, he's too scared to confide in Gail but tells a sympathetic Eileen who insists on going to the hospital with him.
Finally she feels she has someone she can confide in.
London, June 15 (ANI): It has emerged that two thirds of Britons confide in their colleagues rather then their loved ones.
He gradually befriends an older man named Bert, who takes care of the homing pigeons that accompany every flight, and finds that he can confide in him.
COUPLES in close relationships face less risk of further heart attacks than those with no-one to confide in, new research suggests.