go private イディオム
Private Stock
a brand of malt liquor
in private
privately;secretly私人地;秘密地
I wish to talk to you in private.我想同你私下谈谈。
in private|private
adj. or
adv. phr. Not openly or in public; apart from others; confidentially; secretly.
Mr. Jones waited until they were home in private before he punished his son. The teacher told Susan that she wanted to talk to her in private after class. Compare: IN SECRET.
Antonym: IN PUBLIC.
private eye|eye|private
n.,
colloquial A private investigator; a detective.
Buddy Ebsen played a private eye on "Bamaby Jones."
private
private In addition to the idiom beginning with
private, also see
free enterprise;
in private.
private eye
private eye A privately employed detective, as opposed to one working for the police or another authority. For example,
The children loved stories about private eyes, and Janey wanted to become one. This expression comes from the term
private investigator, the “i” of investigator being changed to “eye,” which plays on the idea of a person looking into things. [1930s]
go private
To booty a publicly-traded aggregation into clandestine buying by accepting an broker or accumulation of investors acquirement all of its outstanding shares. The CEO thinks the aggregation would account abundantly from activity clandestine and alienated all the authoritative costs and hassles that appear with actuality public.Learn more: go, private go private
To booty a about endemic aggregation into clandestine ownership, as by a leveraged buyout.Learn more: go, private