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open book (plural open books)
- (idiomatic) Something of which salient aspects are obvious or easily interpreted.
- 1860, Abby Maria Hemenway, “The Priest and The Maiden”, in Poets and Poetry of Vermont:
- There is one, with a dark and thoughtful eye,
Who is to all others a mystery;
But his soul is to me an open book,
And I read his mood in his slightest look; ...
- 1898, John Wesley Powell, Truth and Error or the Science of Intellection:
- This is the secret of Hegel, and the key to his hieroglyphics, and, if consistently used to interpret the sayings of his logic, it becomes an open book.
- 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Untamed:
- On the surface of the ground or through the swaying branches of the trees the spoor of man or beast was an open book to the ape-man, but even his acute senses were baffled by the spoorless trail of the airship.
- 2009, May 21, Barack Obama, speech, Protecting Our Security and Our Values
- But I have never argued – and never will – that our most sensitive national security matters should be an open book.
- (idiomatic) A person who through naivete responds candidly to questions or openly displays their emotions or intentions.
- 1986, Adrienne von Speyr, Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Christian State of Life:
- He is an open book. Everyone can see that he removes nothing, conceals nothing, reserves nothing for himself.
- 1997, Matthew J. DeLuca, Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions:
- Chapter 3: Are You an Open Book? How Much Do I Need to Disclose?
- 2002, Linda Lange, Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
- Emile's most striking characteristic is that he hides nothing. He is an open book, acting the same in private as in public — "Emile is worse at disguising his feelings than any man in the world."
- (mathematics, topology) An open book decomposition.
- (climbing) An inside angle in the rock.
Synonyms[edit]
- (person who is candid): one who wears one's heart on one's sleeve
Antonyms[edit]
- (antonym(s) of “person who is candid”): closed book
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Translations[edit]
thing easily interpreted
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person naively honest or open
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mathematics — see open book decomposition
See also[edit]
- en clair
- open publication: open access book (e.g., open-access monograph)
- open secret
- wear one's heart on one's sleeve
