Idiom
Off the record.
Something said in confidence that the one speaking doesn't want attributed to him/her.
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"I cannot confirm anything, on the record, off the record, between the record," said Ms. Streisand's longtime spokesman, Ken Sunshine.
It might be an elbow-jabbing insider ("FYI guys. Off the record? Between you and me? This can't go any further. Can you keep a secret?
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The idea of having Trump and Putin meet personally seemed to be a non-starter, but between June and August of last year Papadopoulos pursued the idea of an "off-the-record" meeting between campaign officials and representatives of the Russian government.
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The authors base their conclusions on reporting of public interviews, statements by Israeli leaders, leaked State Department cables and off-the-record meetings between the authors and Israeli officials.
But this solution has always been offered as an option in the shadowy private forum — in those off-the-record consultations between confessor and penitent.
An argument between titans like Tony Benn and Roy Jenkins feels a world away from the latest off-the-record squabble between Emily Thornberry and Clive Lewis.
By the end of the 25-minute interview, Faulkner was focused on Giuliani's claim that Cohen had secretly recorded what was supposed to be an off-the-record interview between Trump and CNN's Chris Cuomo.
Cronkite was invited to back rooms where he pulled a reporter's notebook out of his suit pocket for off-the-record briefings; between stops he and producer Ernie Leiser would compare notes in the backseat of the Cadillac.
At the recent off-the-record meeting between U.S. and North Korean representatives at a conference in California, journalists were eager for any crumb of information about what the two interlocutors said to each other.
Questions have been raised this week -- mostly in off-the-record chatter between reporters and political operatives, but also on some blogs -- about whether Ron Carey, a former chief of staff to Bachmann who has publicly criticized her, was one of the anonymous sources who gave comments for the Daily Caller story, which was published Monday night.
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