"hide in plain sight" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-hide in plain sight.ogg Forms: hides in plain sight [present, singular, third-person], hiding in plain sight [participle, present], hid in plain sight [past], hidden in plain sight [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|hide<,,hid,hidden> in plain sight}} hide in plain sight (third-person singular simple present hides in plain sight, present participle hiding in plain sight, simple past hid in plain sight, past participle hidden in plain sight)
  1. (idiomatic) To be unnoticeable, by staying visible in a setting that masks presence. Tags: idiomatic Translations (be unnoticeable by staying visible): 隱身於眾 (Chinese Mandarin), 隐身于众 (yǐnshēnyúzhòng) (Chinese Mandarin), pysytellä poissa näkyvistä (Finnish), sich unsichtbar machen (German), ascuns la vedere (Romanian), спрятать на виду (sprjatatʹ na vidu) (Russian), спрятать на видном месте (sprjatatʹ na vidnom meste) (Russian), esconderse a simple vista (Spanish), ko'rinib turgan holatda ahamiyatsiz qolish (Uzbek)

Inflected forms

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        "(idiomatic) To be unnoticeable, by staying visible in a setting that masks presence."
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          "sense": "be unnoticeable by staying visible",
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          "sense": "be unnoticeable by staying visible",
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          "sense": "be unnoticeable by staying visible",
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          "sense": "be unnoticeable by staying visible",
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          "sense": "be unnoticeable by staying visible",
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "be unnoticeable by staying visible",
      "word": "隱身於眾"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "yǐnshēnyúzhòng",
      "sense": "be unnoticeable by staying visible",
      "word": "隐身于众"
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      "sense": "be unnoticeable by staying visible",
      "word": "pysytellä poissa näkyvistä"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "be unnoticeable by staying visible",
      "word": "sich unsichtbar machen"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "be unnoticeable by staying visible",
      "word": "ascuns la vedere"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sprjatatʹ na vidu",
      "sense": "be unnoticeable by staying visible",
      "word": "спрятать на виду"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sprjatatʹ na vidnom meste",
      "sense": "be unnoticeable by staying visible",
      "word": "спрятать на видном месте"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "be unnoticeable by staying visible",
      "word": "esconderse a simple vista"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "be unnoticeable by staying visible",
      "word": "ko'rinib turgan holatda ahamiyatsiz qolish"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hide in plain sight"
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