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

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

Judge Mrs Justice Lambert said it was an "audacious" and extensively planned scheme to "kill a man in plain sight", which nearly worked.

From BBC

It is “hidden in plain sight”, the archaeologists say, as it is just 15 minutes hike from a major road near Xhipul where mostly Mayan people now live.

From BBC

The nation’s war on drugs has largely failed, but that doesn’t mean police have to sit back as city streets become drug bazaars that flourish in plain sight day and night.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• clearly
• evidently
• officially
• plainly