behind closed doors

Definitions

1. 1

   In private

   In private; in one's private life; lacking (normal) public disclosure, in camera.

   • What you do with your girlfriend behind closed doors is none of my business.
   • 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-”
   • A brilliant piece of undercover reporting revealed extraordinary details of how senior City executives behave behind closed doors.
2. 2

   Without public spectators.

3. 3

   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.

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