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Secret plan   /sˈikrət plæn/   Listen
Secret plan

noun
1.
A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal).  Synonyms: game, plot.  "I saw through his little game from the start"






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"Secret plan" Quotes from Famous Books



... Therefore, the secret plan was a direct journey to Elmer's camp, a flight of eighty-five miles, which would bring the Cibola near to the foot of the mountains of mystery. After this camp had been located and more gasoline taken aboard the boys were to head their ...
— The Air Ship Boys • H.L. Sayler

... secret plan of action, she slept late. At breakfast, excitement took away her appetite. And throughout the study-hour that followed, her eyes read, and her lips repeated aloud, several pages of standard literature for juveniles ...
— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates

... lasted thirteen days) see 'Bourrienne et ses Erreurs', tome i. pp. 16-28, and Iung, tome ii. pp. 443-457. Both, in opposition to Bourrienne, attribute the arrest to his connection with the younger Robespierre. Apparently Albitte and Salicetti wets not acquainted with the secret plan of campaign prepared by the younger Robespierre and by Bonaparte, or with the real instructions given for the mission to Genoa. Jealousy between the representatives in the staff of the army of the Alps and those with the army of ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... was a failure. In December, Clement escaped in disguise from his Imperial guards: Knight found him at Orvieto. It was evident that the secret plan of getting the Pope's permission to marry again without upsetting the existing marriage [Footnote: Brewer, ii., 224, 234-239. Both the Conscience of the King and the need of an heir, are dwelt on in the instructions.] ...
— England Under the Tudors • Arthur D. Innes



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