| 单词 | open secret |
| 释义 | open secretSEE SYNONYMS FOR open secret ON THESAURUS.COM nounsomething supposedly secret but actually known quite generally. Origin of open secretFirst recorded in 1875–80 Words nearby open secretopen registry, open sandwich, open sea, open season, open season on, open secret, open sentence, open sesame, open set, open-shelf, open shop Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for open secretopen secret nounsomething that is supposed to be secret but is widely known Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with open secretopen secret Something that is supposedly clandestine but is in fact widely known, as in It's an open secret that both their children are adopted. This expression originated as the title of a Spanish play by Calderón, El Secreto a Voces (“The Noisy Secret”), which was translated by Carlo Gozzi into Italian as Il pubblico secreto (1769). In English the term came into general use during the 1800s. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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