bring out into the open
Example Sentences
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He could be shrill and polarizing, a self-professed “troublemaker” who cultivated what he described as a “tendency to bring out into the open what had too long been swept under the carpet.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2015
I never broach the subjects I long to bring out into the open.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
The airmen piloted seaplanes and succeeded in dropping a number of bombs in the vicinity of Cuxhaven, in an attempt to bring out into the open a portion of the German fleet lying there.
From America's War for Humanity by Russell, Thomas Herbert
It is not you, it is your poor father they want to bring out into the open.
From The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan by MacGrath, Harold
