out in the open

Idioms and Phrases

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

"I think if you call an album Gary, and you write a song about a fibreglass gorilla, you're out in the open, in terms of someone's going to say something like that," the singer responds.

From BBC

In five and a half hours in this once bustling city we saw two people out in the open, on foot.

From BBC

“There have definitely been corporate campaigns and corporate spending, but nothing on this scale, and nothing that is so out in the open ... just radically and transparently transactional.”

From Los Angeles Times

"I hope we can get this all out in the open," he added.

From BBC

What emerges, if one also assumes that nothing good can come from three right-wing billionaires conspiring, is a grim portrait of the political reality in 2024: that there is an international plot — increasingly out in the open — to undermine democracy in the United States and elsewhere.

From Salon

Related Words

• clear
• conspicuous
• discernible
• evident
• glaring
• noticeable
• overt
• palpable
• understandable
• unmistakable
• visible