What does this mean?

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When somebody's telling you something and they say "between me and you", what does this mean? Is it that they're telling you a secret and you're not to tell anyone else or is it just one of those figure of speech things. This confuses me because people are always saying it to me and it makes me feel like I've got a lot of responsibility to keep secrets.

"Between you and me" means that you shouldn't repeat what the person is telling you to anyone else. Just keep the conversation between the two of you.

It depends on the context. If it's something about someone you know, or themself, or their job, or something related to either one of you or someone you know, it means don't repeat it.

Sometimes people say it just as a filler. As in "Between you and me, I hope Micheal Jackson's doctor gets life in prison".

Sometimes it's a secret, sometimes just a conversation filler. It depends on what the subject it. I still wouldn't repeat what they said, even if it was a filler. They may not want their opinion known.

Frances

it's a good thing I can keep a secret then because people are always saying it to me.

It's another way of saying it's a secret and it can also mean they don't want you airing the dirty laundry to everyone else. Like if you had a conflict with someone and you went and told other people about it and the person found out about it and told you it was between you and them, it means they don't want you going around telling others about it because they don't want others to know or think others don't need to know.

It means they are going to tell you the truth while they lie to everyone else, and they want your collusion by keeping silent about their real opinions.

I try to head this one off with people I know by telling them that I'm almost incapable of keeping secrets. If someone tells me a secret, I won't go around telling other people what they told me, but if someone asks me directly I have an overwhelming compulsion to tell them the truth. The best I can do to hold the information in is to say "I'm not allowed to tell you that," but even that measure is painful to me.

People can be sneaky. They'd sometimes say that hoping you will actually spread the rumor