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behind closed doors en · ADP

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) In private; in one's private life; lacking (normal) public disclosure, in camera.
    • Miss Maudie shook her head. “If he’s not [crazy] he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets-” 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
    • A major problem has been the making of bad decisions behind closed doors. 2021 December 29, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Problems galore in 2021...”, in RAIL, number 947, page 3:
    • What you do with your girlfriend behind closed doors is none of my business.
    • A brilliant piece of undercover reporting revealed extraordinary details of how senior City executives behave behind closed doors. 2018 January 25, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in the Guardian:
  2. (idiomatic) Without public spectators.
    • Libya's opening home match in the World Cup qualifiers against Cameroon will be played at a neutral venue and behind closed doors, FIFA said on Friday. https://web.archive.org/web/20150611004158/http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/04/20/soccer-world-libya-idINDEE83J07G20120420
  3. (idiomatic) stored in a hidden place.
    • In other research, scientists have found that people who kept cereal out in the open were often about 20 pounds heavier than people who kept cereal behind closed doors. 2015 May 18, Angus Chen, How We Store Food At Home Could Be Linked To How Much We Eat:

Synonyms

with closed doors · closed door

Translations (26)

hu a négy fal között (in private) · fr à huis clos (in private) · pt à porta fechada (in private) · ar خلف الأبواب المغلقة (in private) · pt a portas fechadas (in private) · lt už uždarų durų (in private) · fr en privé (in private) · sv bakom lyckta dörrar (in private) · cs s vyloučením veřejnosti (in private) · de hinter verschlossenen Türen (in private) · is á bak við luktar dyr (in private) · nl achter gesloten deuren (in private) · pl za zamkniętymi drzwiami (in private) · fi suljettujen ovien takana (in private) · ru за закры́тыми дверя́ми (in private) · uk за закри́тими двери́ма (in private) · es a puerta cerrada (in private) · sh iza zatvorenih vrata (in private) · it a porte chiuse (in private) · el κεκλεισμένων των θυρών (in private) · he בִּדְלָתַיִם סְגוּרוֹת (in private) · uk за зачи́неними двери́ма (in private) · fi suljetuin ovin (in private) · hu zárt ajtók mögött (in private) · nl binnenskamers (in private) · pt entre quatro paredes (in private)