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something that is supposed to be secret but is generally known
their love affair was an open secret
How To Use open secret In A Sentence
- It's an open secret that the security service bugged telephones.
- Their presence was an open secret. The Glasgow Girls
- As it is an open secret that Lord ROBERT CECIL has been polishing up his "shove-halfpenny" in the billiard-room of the Hotel Majestic interesting developments are anticipated. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919
- It is an open secret that most police officers dedicated to duty are living miserable lives, unlike some of their colleagues who have taken to crime and are in the service solely for self-aggrandisement.
- The player's name, however, is an open secret with American John Daly, the 1995 British Open champion, a virtual certainty for the event.
- It's an open secret that the security service bugged telephones.
- In showbusiness circles his sexuality was an open secret.
- It is an open secret now that the ISI has a political cell.
- You've also written about his toupee and you've written about what you call his reputation for goatish pursuit of young women was an open secret. CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2002
- When a few weeks later it was reported in the papers that Wilcox had been shot at from an ambuscade, it was an open secret that McMurdo was still at work upon his unfinished job. Chennai