Meaning of JUST BETWEEN YOU AND ME - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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When you start a sentence in English with the phrase, "Just between you and me..", it
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means you're about to share some information that you want kept private.
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It means that you're going to share some information that you want to be a secret.
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When you say, "Just between you and me..", you're saying that let's be the only two people
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that know this.
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A great example would be, maybe you went out to eat with your cousin Connie and at the
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end of the meal she had trouble paying her bill.
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Maybe her credit card didn't work.
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And the next time you see your sister and you're talking about cousin Connie, you could
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say to your sister, "You know just between you and me, I think Connie is having money
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problems.
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I think that at the end of the meal she was having trouble paying the bill.
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So just between you and me, I think she might be having some money problems."
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So when you start a sentence with the phrase, "Just between you and me...", it means you're
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about to tell a secret.
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