|
|
Definition of Open secret
1. Noun. Something that is supposed to be secret but is generally known. "Their love affair was an open secret"
Definition of Open secret
1. Noun. A fact that is widely known, but not acknowledged openly. ¹
2. Noun. (dated) Information that is not widely known, despite being freely available. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Open Secret
Literary usage of Open secret
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1881 It is an open secret that [Sargent, of California] has long been in " cahoot"
with ex-Governor Shepherd.—Philadelphia Record, Feb. 8. ..."
2. The Secret of a Happy Home by Marion Harland (1896)
"AN open secret. Some one asked me the other day, if I were not "weary of being
so often put forward to talk of 'How to Make Home Happy,' a subject upon ..."
3. Essays and Phantasies by James Thomson (1881)
"open secret SOCIETIES. 1865. I. INSCRIBED upon the banners of the grandest Secret
Societies recorded in history, as at once their motto and their ..."
Other Resources:
