best-kept secret in English

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    {
      "form": "best-kept secrets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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        {
          "text": "Forget the Great Wall - Beijing's best-kept secret is its crazy taxi drivers."
        }
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        "Something interesting or important but not well-known."
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        "(idiomatic) Something interesting or important but not well-known."
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          "english": "rarely known fact",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "something interesting or important but not well-known",
          "word": "鮮為人知的事"
        },
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "xiǎnwéirénzhī de shì",
          "sense": "something interesting or important but not well-known",
          "word": "鲜为人知的事"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "english": "best secret place",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zuì bàng de mì jìng",
          "sense": "something interesting or important but not well-known",
          "word": "最棒的秘境"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "something interesting or important but not well-known",
          "word": "varjelluin salaisuus"
        }
      ]
    }
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    }
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  "word": "best-kept secret"
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    {
      "form": "best-kept secrets",
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        "plural"
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    }
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      "examples": [
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          "text": "Forget the Great Wall - Beijing's best-kept secret is its crazy taxi drivers."
        }
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        "Something interesting or important but not well-known."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) Something interesting or important but not well-known."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "english": "rarely known fact",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "something interesting or important but not well-known",
      "word": "鮮為人知的事"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiǎnwéirénzhī de shì",
      "sense": "something interesting or important but not well-known",
      "word": "鲜为人知的事"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "english": "best secret place",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zuì bàng de mì jìng",
      "sense": "something interesting or important but not well-known",
      "word": "最棒的秘境"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "something interesting or important but not well-known",
      "word": "varjelluin salaisuus"
    }
  ],
  "word": "best-kept secret"
}

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"best-kept secret" meaning in English

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