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

But there are several tech bargains hiding in plain sight — companies that have posted strong profit growth in recent years, but still trade below their five-year average valuations.

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The stock market’s drop over the past few weeks seems unexplained at a glance, but the driver is hiding in plain sight: the outlook for interest rates.

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“It forced us, as story makers, to not be able to hide too much, since everything’s in plain sight, which actually lends itself to the horror,” Holloway said.

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By normalizing gross impropriety, the administration is trying to hide in plain sight the enrichment of the president’s family and friends while he’s in office.

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Each was designed to mask ideology in plain sight.

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Related Words

• clearly 
• evidently 
• officially 
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