in plain sight

[ in pleyn sahyt ]

idiom

1. in a place or manner that is clearly visible:

   Some of your best home decor pieces are hiding in plain sight right in your kitchen.

   This cheat is operating in plain sight, fooling everybody and getting away with it.

Example Sentences

Victoria felt she was being abused in plain sight - she believes that the cries for help, the beatings, and the constant flow of men coming in and out of the property, would have made it obvious.

From BBC

The review said frequent allegations of abuse had been made but not followed up on or reported to police, and the lack of challenge had enabled a monk to abuse children over four decades "in plain sight".

From BBC

Social Security’s internal workings are so recondite and poorly understood by average voters that numerous possible ways of imposing benefit cuts or otherwise harming the program are hiding in plain sight.

From Los Angeles Times

Death waits offstage here, in plain sight.

From Los Angeles Times

"It really points out how much in our universe is hiding in plain sight -- still waiting to be found," says co-author Maria Drout, also a professor in the David A. Dunlap Department for Astronomy & Astrophysics at U of T. "While there are many examples of this type of binary system, very few have the age constraints necessary to fully map their evolutionary history. While there is plenty of work left to confirm and fully characterize these systems, these results will have implications across multiple areas of astrophysics."

From Science Daily

Related Words

• clearly
• evidently
• officially
• plainly