Dictionary.com

Popular Searches

 Thesaurus.com
Synonyms

in plain sight

American  
[in pleyn sahyt] / ɪn ˈpleɪn ˈsaɪt /

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

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Very carefully, I covered each trap with leaves but left the apples in plain sight.

From Literature

Like the subjects of Kertész’s pictures, the photographer was, as Ms. Albers puts it, “a secret in plain sight.”

From The Wall Street Journal

What he was soon to discover was that the clue to the 12-year-old's location was hidden in plain sight.

From BBC

Some Pekingologists say clues pointing to the downfall of He Weidong, who was China’s No. 2 general, were hiding in plain sight even before the party announced his expulsion in October.

From The Wall Street Journal

If he is going to allow his parents and his salary to dictate whether or not you wed, that’s a choice, and it implies that the answer may be hiding in plain sight.

From MarketWatch

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.