OUT IN THE OPEN Definition & Meaning

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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]

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He spoke to masked men selling drugs out in the open and carrying large weapons - they explained that teenagers as young as 13 had sometimes become involved in criminal activity in the favela.

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"Of course there are queer couples, or transgender couples, all over India," says the director of Amma's Pride, Shiva Krish, but because of continuing discrimination "several are secretive about their relationship. Srija and Arun, and Valli, are unique in choosing to live their everyday life out in the open."

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She wanted to get everything out in the open so that the pair could move forward.

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Most people don't know it, but schools for Black people — free and enslaved — operated out in the open in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

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Despite the earlier robbery, he repeatedly abandons his post, not to mention leaving a loaded handgun out in the open.

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