Only now it was to be an open secret that nobody actually expected policy to be founded on principles.
In a sense it was all a farce because his identity was an open secret.
Throughout the novel, one secret in particular operates very clearly: the open secret, which others know but agree - or conspire - not to tell.
My play was to utilize two actors and one actress and incorporate 'diamond necklace' (noun); 'open secret' (oxymoron); and '1981' (year).
It is an open secret now that for a long time negotiations have been going on for the purchase of these papers.
That is not a secret; it is not even an open secret; everyone knows that.
However, it is an open secret that, time after time, supermarkets are unfair and unreasonable with producers.
It is now an open secret that the museum is having difficulty funding its day-to-day operations.