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come out in the open

verb as in break cover

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"We need parents to lay the foundations and more community leaders to come out in the open and put it to the authorities to ensure we have more youth hubs which can stop these youths from loitering on the streets," he said.

From BBC

"If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world," declared former Rep. William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska.

From Salon

In 2019, his campaign announcement featured the August 2017 march in Charlottesville, during which, candidate Joe Biden recalled, “Klansmen and white supremacists and neo-Nazis come out in the open, their crazed faces, illuminated by torches, veins bulging and bearing the fangs of racism. Chanting the same antisemitic bile heard across Europe in the ’30s.”

“Chinese actions in the shadows are now checked, which also forced them to come out in the open or to publicly lie.”

After the initial shock, I said if it’s up to me I do know people who will be able to create Dior, but it will cost a lot of money; there were producers there, and I thought it best it come out in the open.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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