English

Prepositional phrase

under the rose

1. (idiomatic) In secret.
   • 1861, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, quoted by Fiona MacCarthy (2011) in The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-22861-4, p.130.

     We are organising (but this is quite under the rose as yet) a company for the production of furniture and decoration of all kinds, for the sale of which we are going to open an actual shop!