take someone into one's confidence
Tell someone one’s secrets: she took me into her confidence and told me about her problems...- When someone takes us into their confidence, we should regard their secret as a sacred trust.
- Smaller and weaker he may be, but he still has the capacity to make a crowd feel he is taking them into his confidence.
- Within a short period of time women and men were taking me into their confidence and I felt that I was truly a part of their community and lives.
See parent entry: confidence