closed book
Example Sentences
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“As you know, I’m not normally a closed book on this stuff,” Sean told me.
From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2023
In a way, it was a good ending, in the fact that it wasn’t completely definitive or a closed book.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2020
But the past is not a closed book.
From BBC • Jul. 10, 2019
Chase Swatosh was politely impressive as the barefoot and bare-chested man, but as the grand ballerina who finds romantic expansiveness by spending time with the bare-chested modernist, Simone Messmer was a closed book.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2017
But at the same time he was a closed book.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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