MEANING
Kept secret or hidden from public knowledge until someone chooses to reveal it.
Use it for
describing plans not yet announced; keeping a project confidential; showing details being deliberately concealed; describing information withheld before a launchDescribes information or plans being deliberately kept from public knowledge. Writing functions: Secrecy.
Words that belong together
- keep something under wraps
- remain under wraps
- be under wraps
On the page
The design stayed under wraps until the patent application was filed.
They kept the revised ending under wraps, even from most of the cast.
Word forms
- Base
- under wraps
Usage notes
Fixed idiomatic phrase used after be, keep, remain or stay. Wraps stays plural; there are no invented conjugations of the phrase. Register: neutral. Commonness: common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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