hush-hush

Word family nounhushabyhush moneyadjectivehushedhush-hushinterjectionhush

ˌhush-ˈhush / $ ˈ‧ ‧/ adjectiveadj informal

SECRETvery secret 秘密的

Everything was very hush-hush.

一切都神神秘秘的。

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Examples from the Corpus

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.

单词	hush-hush
释义	hush-hush Word family nounhushabyhush moneyadjectivehushedhush-hushinterjectionhush ˌhush-ˈhush / $ ˈ‧ ‧/ adjectiveadj informal SECRETvery secret 秘密的 Everything was very hush-hush. 一切都神神秘秘的。 ► see thesaurus at secret Examples from the Corpus 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.
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