tête-à-tête

Examples

• All

• If she thought we were going to have a little tête-à-tête, she was wrong.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Can you imagine her having an intimate tête-à-tête with Mr. Charles Pickard?

  Fiction book (1990)

• " We are going to have, as we say in French, a tête-à-tête."

  Blog text (19)

• I should like a little tête-à-tête with Miss McKay.

  An Affair to Remember (1957)

• But I was wary, in no mood for a tête-à-tête with the tenant from hell.

  Fiction book (2001)

• We'll have dinner tête-à-tête.

  Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

• "A little moment, a nice little tête-à-tête," he said, stumbling slightly as he stepped backward.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Since the divorce, there had been kindness from men who liked her, theater visits, and tête-à-tête dinners, hints of romance.

  Fiction book (1993)

• So why not schedule a tête-à-tête with your guy in your own house?

• Can you imagine her having an intimate tête-à-tête with Mr. Charles Pickard?

Synonyms

O

one-on-one

vstête-à-tête

50 3.1

Between two people with no one else present

is more intimate and private rather than merely direct

H

head-to-head

vstête-à-tête

3 4.2

A private meeting between two people

is more about close privacy than a simple two-person meeting

T

tete-a-tete

vstête-à-tête

8.3

Privately between two people

is written with accents in its original form

How Private

tête-à-tête

5 8.6

private

∞ 1.8

meeting

∞ 1.0

group meeting

8 2.2

public

184 1.4

Surface Forms

Etymology