| 单词 | an open secret |
| 释义 | > as lemmasan open secret b. an open secret: something which is ostensibly a secret, but which requires little effort or penetration to discover. Also secret of Polichinelle = secret de Polichinelle n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > something concealed, a secret > unsuccessful an open secret1828 secret of Polichinelle1828 secret de Polichinelle1857 1828 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. 2 iii. 101 The ‘open secret’ is no longer a secret to him, and he knows that the Universe is full of goodness; that whatever has being has beauty. 1853 C. Brontë Villette III. xliii. 336 I wanted to prove to Miss Lucy that I could keep a secret... How many times has she saucily insinuated that all my affairs are the secret of Polichinelle! 1879 F. Pollock in W. K. Clifford Lect. Introd. i. 1 It is an open secret to the few who know it, but a mystery..to the many, that Science and Poetry are own sisters. 1882 L. Stephen Swift iv. 74 The mask [of anonymity] was..a sufficient protection against legal prosecution, but in reality covering an open secret. < as lemmas |
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