directly (straight; not crookedly, obliquely, or circuitously) · directly (proceeding without deviation or interruption) · directly (straightforwardly; sincerely)
in private, in confidence, one-to-one, face-to-face (occurring privately with the involvement of two people)
köken: From négy (“four”) + szem (“eye”) + közt (“between”), literally “between four eyes”. Compare French entre quatre yeux, German unter vier Augen, Italian a quattr'occhi, Polish w cztery oczy, Czech mezi čtyřma očima.
köken: * Compound of empat (“four”) + mata (“eye”) * Calque of Dutch onder vier ogen (“in private”, literally “under four eyes”). The same phrase is used in German unter vier Augen, Danish under fire øjne, and Icelandic undir fjögur augu.