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a row of three Golden Retriever dogs and one life-sized model of a dog, which one of the Golden Retrievers is watching with a suspicious expression - illustrating the concept of hiding in plain sight

Hidden in plain sight: words and phrases connected with hiding

On By Liz WalterIn the English language, Vocabulary4 Comments

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a row of three Golden Retriever dogs and one life-sized model of a dog, which one of the Golden Retrievers is watching with a suspicious expression - illustrating the concept of hiding in plain sight
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by Liz Walter

The other day, I read a report about someone whose crimes were hidden in plain sight. In other words, they should have been easy to spot, but in fact were so obvious that nobody noticed them. We can also say that someone hides (or hides something) in plain sight:

Clues to his feelings were hidden in plain sight in his poems.

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