closed book

Mr Ba may have been on the political scene for the last decade, but he is a bit of a closed book for most.

“As you know, I’m not normally a closed book on this stuff,” Sean told me.

When the bank collapsed, her loan was one of thousands sold by the government to so-called "closed book" lenders.

The answer was always there, tucked away within the brittle pages of that closed book—Papá.

A "free hit" is how Mott described the je ne sais quoi that Stokes brings to the team, with his inclusion in England's XI a closed book as far as Foster is concerned.