Private detective shares secret emojis that reveal whether your partner is cheating on you

A private detective has opened up about a seemingly innocuous sign that your partner may be playing away, and it's on their phone.

There could be a lot of subtle signs in a relationship that someone is up to no good which are not as obvious a saucy text chain with someone.

Maybe a partner is a little bit too protective of their phone, or can't explain where they were when asked.

But a private investigator who has been employed to expose cheaters has explained that there is an even more subtle signal that someone could be playing away.

To be clear, by itself this isn't definitive proof, but it could be the start of a thread that leads to something more concrete.

Paul Jones is a private detective who works with ARF Private Investigators, and explained how it's all to do with something that we commonly use during our conversations via text.

There are a lot of telltale signs that something might be up (SimpleImages/Getty)

This is of course emojis, which have become sophisticated enough to almost become a language all of their own.

There are of course some emojis which, while not themselves explicit, have taken on a double meaning.

For example, both the peach and the aubergine have separate NSFW meanings which give a whole different meaning to getting your five a day.

Likewise, the fire, or a sweating person with their tongue out, or three water droplets all have a subliminal meaning depending on context.

Jones explained that it actually goes further than just these more obvious emojis into a whole secret language, a bit like the pineapple for swingers, which are seemingly innocuous.

One is the coffee cup, which meets 'let's meet', though probably not meeting for a drink.

Likewise, there's the moon, which says someone can't talk at the moment but will be available later, and the car which means someone's on their way.

The window emoji is also there, and is accompanied by two numbers, for example window, seven, ten, meaning someone has a 'window' between seven and ten, maybe to get 'coffee'.

It's all to do with the emojis ( bortonia/Getty)

There's even ones for when something is going wrong, like soap, meaning delete chats, a ruler meaning get your story straight, and then the broom, meaning get rid of everything.

Finally, there's the fire extinguisher, which is a code to suggest that someone cool off for the moment to avert suspicion.

Jones told the Daily Mail: "Cheaters are rarely careless. I've spent years catching them, and they are continually finding new ways of outsmarting their partners and investigators like me."

He explained that he is not encouraging people to 'snoop' on their partner, but if there are sexually charged emojis showing up on their frequently used keyboard, and they're not sending them to you, then where are they using them?

Jones also clarified that this alone isn't a sure sign, explaining: "There's rarely one sign that blows a case open and shows that someone is cheating. It's usually a combination of many smaller signs"