open secret
Example Sentences
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The BBC has spoken to a former lecturer who describes essay cheating as an "open secret" and to a businessman who claims to have made millions from selling "model answer" essays to university students.
From BBC
Still, it was an open secret that the car wash industry, which paid low wages for back-breaking labor, largely attracted people without legal status.
From Los Angeles Times
Since the collapse of the Assad regime on Dec. 8 last year, ordinary Syrians are reporting sites that had long been an open secret.
It is an open secret he has helped, and continues to help, many people financially, and he often says that with so many people going through bad times his profession is a privilege.
From BBC
When I mentioned his name to people in the industry, I was told it was "the biggest open secret in TV".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
