close to the vest

adv

Etymology

It refers to the practice of holding one's playing cards close to one's chest so that the other players cannot see one's hand.

Definitions

  1. In a reserved or secretive manner.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for close to the vest. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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