Keep secrets safe.

Meaning: This means that you should not tell other people about things that you have been told in confidence.

Choice of Words: The word "secret" is something that is meant to be kept hidden and not revealed to others. When you say "keep secrets safe," you are telling someone to make sure that the information they have been given is not shared with others.

Alternative Expressions

Don't tell secrets.

Meaning: This also means that you should not tell secrets to other people. It's like saying, Keep your lips sealed about the surprise party we're planning for Mom.

Choice of Words: The word don't means to not do something. Tell means to speak or write something to someone. Secrets are things that are not supposed to be shared with others. So when we put them together, "Don't tell secrets" means to not share secrets with others.

Secrets should be kept secret.

Meaning: This is another way of saying that you should not tell secrets to other people. It's like saying, It's important to keep secrets hidden from others.

Choice of Words: The word should means that something is the right or expected thing to do. Be is a verb that means to exist or to happen. Kept is the past tense of keep, which means to have or hold something and not let it go. Secret means something that is not supposed to be shared with others. So when we put them together, "Secrets should be kept secret" means that it is the right thing to do to keep secrets from being shared with others.

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