out in the open

1. Also, out into the open. In or into public view or knowledge, as in I wish he wouldn't talk behind our backs but bring his complaints out in the open, or It's important to bring the merger plans out into the open. This term uses open to mean “an unconcealed state.” [c. 1940]

Example Sentences

Boys’ rules of those times: Conflicts were out in the open.

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Some had their own trucks and sheltered in the cabs of them; others sat out in the open, like ducks.

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Although ICE is conducting itself out in the open, even inviting conservative social media influencers to accompany its agents on high-profile raids, the agency operates in darkness.

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Together, they start to embrace their more ruthless tendencies out in the open, and when given the choice to return to their original world, they opt to stay as citizens of Borderland, where they can presumably have fun running sadistic games.

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Right out in the open,” former GOP Congressman Joe Walsh wrote on X in response to the ABC News report.

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