closed book
Example Sentences
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Mr Ba may have been on the political scene for the last decade, but he is a bit of a closed book for most.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024
“As you know, I’m not normally a closed book on this stuff,” Sean told me.
From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2023
A lot of the stuff we know as fact turns out to be closed book fiction, a version of the truth steeped in the memory and settled now as a matter of certainty.
From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2020
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 at the same time he was a closed book.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
