secret garden
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsecretandgarden
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secret
adjective
uk/ˈsiː.krət/us/ˈsiː.krət/
If something is secret, other people are not allowed to know ...
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garden
noun
uk/ˈɡɑː.dən/us/ˈɡɑːr.dən/
UK
a piece of land next to and belonging to a house, where flowers and other plants are grown, and often containing an area ...
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(Definition ofsecretandgardenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is not asecretgarden.
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There was something called the "secretgarden" of the curriculum.
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Let us open the gate to local government'ssecretgarden.
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We shall explode the mystique of the "secretgarden".
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He talked about thesecretgardenof the curriculum.
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A rooftop 'secretgarden' gives staff a private external space, with views of the surrounding gardens, without having to go through patient areas.
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There is to be no return to the "secretgarden" in education.
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I was a little alarmed to hear her quoting the phrase "secretgarden".
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In the past there was thesecretgardenof the curriculum.
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It has been said that education is no longer asecretgarden.
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More than a generation later, thatsecretgardenis well and truly open.
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It is thesecretgardenof our profession, so don't intervene.
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Thesecretgardenis not just a matter of the curriculum.
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The concept is similar to that of thesecretgarden.
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Thissecretgardenis very nice and romantic.
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It's revealed that this is hissecretgarden.
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The clause deals with the very heart of education—what long ago used to be called "thesecretgarden".
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It is perhaps held to be the key to asecretgardenfull of special beautiful people.
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There is something of asecretgardenabout the provision of food through the school meals service.
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A major concern about the growth of new media communications is what people in the industry call thesecretgardenproblem.
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Education should no longer be regarded as asecretgardenfor which the teacher unions have the only or major key.
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They should be publicly available, not kept in somesecretgardenaway from the public, so that will inevitably lead to their publication.
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For those of us who do not involve ourselves daily in the minutiae of social security regulations, they can seem like asecretgarden.
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However, he discovers asecretgardenthat only appears in the middle of the night.
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The garden is known as a "giardino segreto" (secretgarden), for its concealment from an outsider's view.
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