bona fide Idiom, Proverb

confide in

1．trust；believe in相信
You can confide in me，my dear．Your affair will be kept private．你可以信任我，亲爱的，你的事情我会保密的。
Why should I not confide in those that have been so kind to me？为什么我不该信赖那些一直待我这样好的人呢？
I confided in your good judgement．我坚信你有良好的判断力。
Do you confide in my ability to finish the work on time？你相信我有按时完成工作的能力吗？
2．share secrets and intimate matters with 向…吐露秘密；讲心里话
Her heart was breaking，and she had no one to confide in．她伤心欲绝，而且又没有人可以倾诉。
Modern girls seldom confide in their mother．现代女孩子很少向母亲吐露心事。

confide to

1．give to the care of托…照管；委托
He confided his child to the care of his neighbour．他把他孩子托邻居照看。
You'd better confide your jewels to the bank．你最好把珠宝托银行代管。
2．tell as a secret；tell secrets to吐露（秘密）
She confided her secret to her best friend．她把秘密告诉了最亲密的朋友。

confident of

feeling or showing confidence；certain感觉有信心的；有把握的
He feels confident of passing the examination．他自信能考及格。
I am confident of success．我自信能成功。

in confidence

secretly；privately秘密地；私下地
I'm telling you this in confidence；please don't tell anyone else.这件事我只告诉你一个人，请别告诉别人。

take sb into one's confidence

Idiom(s): take sb into one's confidence

Theme: TRUST

to trust someone with confidential information; to tell a secret to someone and trust the person to keep the secret.
• We are good friends, hut I didn't feel I could take her into my confidence.
• I know something very important about Jean. Can I take you into my confidence?

confidence

confidence
In addition to the idiom beginning with confidence, also see in confidence; take into one's confidence.

confidence game

confidence game
Also, confidence trick; con game. A swindle in which the victim is defrauded after his or her trust has been won. For example, The police warned of a confidence game in which people were asked to turn over valuables for a so-called appraisal, or The typical confidence trick is easy to spot if you know what to look for, or I almost let myself be taken in by her con game—she seemed so sincere. These terms, which use confidence in the sense of “trust,” date from the mid-1800s. They also gave rise to confidence man (or con man) for the swindler.

take into one's confidence

take into one's confidence
Trust someone with a secret, as in She took me into her confidence and admitted that she was quitting next month. This idiom uses confidence in the sense of “trust,” a usage dating from the late 1500s.

bona fide

1. Truthful or sincere. "Bona fide" is a Latin byword acceptation "good faith." Believe me, this is a bona fide job offer—you can alpha on Monday.2. Genuine or legitimate. They say this is a bona fide Picasso, but I'm skeptical.Learn more: bona

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