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privy

(= outhouse) a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate (= toilet) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets (= secluded, secret) hidden from general view or use a privy place to rest and think a secluded romantic spot a secret garden (followed by 'to') informed about something secret or not generally known privy to the details of the conspiracy

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Simple sentences

I'm not privy to their decisions.

Movie subtitles

Till my return, I entrust you and the Privy Council with the affairs of State.
They tell you when to eat, when to sleep, when to go to the privy.
Scott didn't want to dirty his hands collecting those letters but Colonel Casey is always ready to clean up the General's privy.
There are but three of us privy to this secret.
The sheriff has no education, the revenue officer is timid, the master forester is a privy councillor and illiterate.
If. Drabble is privy to the information he's already given us, we must assume he has knowledge which could endanger the country's security, and put countless lives at risk.
In the privy.
That 's where you're wrong, Lucy. If you spent less time walking the streets like a gipsy. and more time sitting with decent folk on the privy. you'd have met Joe before you've met me.
Clearly, you two had many talks about my shortcomings which I haven't been privy to.
Itwould have to be very senior,mostly Privy Councillors.
Prince Maximilian gave Joseph money and asked his privy councilor to provide further help to the boy, should it be needed.
Lord President, Lord Privy Seal. Minister of Sport with special responsibility for droughts and floods.
Membership of the Privy Council, the Party Policy Committee.
Why did he suggest the Lord Privy Seal?
And as such, I'm privy to every single conversation that used me as a conduit, meaning that of course I know everything there is to know about the Emperor's scheme.
I'm proud of you, Privy Councillor!
Good evening and congratulations, Privy Councillor.
The Privy Counselor is not receiving anyone!
If you succeed in making the car float, I will make you privy councilor.
Provo's Privy. It does sing!
You got a privy out back?
Put them in the privy.
Privy?
I fell into her privy, and here I am.
The privy.
If you'd spent less time walking the streets and more time sitting with decent folk on the privy, you'd have met Joe before me.
Done by the finest pen that ever laid a brush to a privy.
The whole world knows that you are a man of enormous discretion and gallantry, a man notedly privy to the secrets of kings and prime ministers, and also a man not willing to stand by and see a lady in trouble without rushing to her aid.
Rading it, I felt as if I had lifted the lid of the privy and pushed my nose inside.
My name: Privy councilor Otto Mayer.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you very warmly for your applause for the opening by the committee of the bachelors and bachelorettes and now ask the Director of the Federal Secondary Schools of Horner, privy councilor Otto Meyer to open the ball.
But not privy to whom his wife. welcomes into his house.
To have possession of my person. is not an excuse to be privy to my husband's Will.
It won't be easy to find the privy in the dark.
The generals and Privy Counsellors left their whist in order to watch such extraordinary play.
Thy titles have been but few - Duke of Edinburgh and Warden of the Royal Privy. It is so, My Lord.
I thought you might lose the privy!
They've made an odd choice for their leader, Lord Warden of the Privy!
We'll fight it all the way to the Privy Council, if necessary.

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