under wraps

1. 1.

   kept secret

   “the plan was kept carefully under wraps”

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Questions about under wraps

What does under wraps mean?

under wraps means "kept secret".

Is under wraps a common word?

under wraps is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.