dark secret

collocation in English

meaningsofdarkandsecret

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dark
adjective
uk
/dɑːk/us
/dɑːrk/
with little or ...
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secret
noun
uk
/ˈsiː.krət/us
/ˈsiː.krət/
a piece of information that is only known by one person or a few people and should not be told ...
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(Definition ofdarkandsecretfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There is a secret which is kept un-revealed by the people who run finance companies, and so on, a verydarksecret.
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It was this more than anything else that is thedarksecretof subsection (5).
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It must have been a verydarksecret.
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They may not succeed, but that is no reason why they should be kept adarksecretuntil we know positively whether they will work.
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It seems to have been adarksecret, but still he might have entrusted it to him.
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The date of operation was adarksecreteven from family practitioner committees, on whom opticians rely for their authoritative information.
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There is nodarksecretbehind the term "inconsistencies and anomalies".
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So these things are not going to be a deep,darksecret.
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I do not believe that we shall discover thedarksecretthis afternoon.
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Alas, too often that remains adarksecret.
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She will therefore serve other women badly by keeping adarksecret.
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These weird diseases with long and complicated names which we have in mining constituencies are a deep,darksecretas a rule to the rest of the country.
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Or is this to be anotherdarksecretto cover up some more deficiencies in our defence policy, of which unfortunately we have had too many examples lately?
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There was adarksecretto the store's success, however.
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Neese, knowing the child'sdarksecret, adopted her and raised her as her own, trying to shield her from the truth of herdarksecret.
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However, she has been hiding adarksecretthat she can not hide forever - she is pregnant.
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Thisdarksecretappears to be tied up in the bad vibes concerning the house.
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But, at the same time, she suffers from adarksecret, which haunts her at nightfall.
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