an open book
noun
: a person or thing that is easy to learn about and understand
My life is an open book. I have nothing to hide.
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Everyone’s past, no matter how far back, is an open book.
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Christian Schneider, National Review, 4 Jan. 2024
Her eyes shut, she was draped in a robe with ermine trim, with an inkpot sitting on her skirt and one hand resting on an open book.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
Staunton’s Elizabeth is by comparison an open book, and its contents are disappointing.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
Whoopi Goldberg was an open book discussing her endometriosis journey on The View.
—Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
P!nk has always been an open book with her fans, sharing her triumphs and tragedies, celebrating her chart-topping hits and Summer Carnival tour and always sticking up for the underdog when bullies come calling.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2023
The centerpiece will be a new national monument commemorating freedom: a 43-foot-tall, 150-foot-long wall, angled like an open book and inscribed with more than 120,000 distinct surnames documented in the 1870 census that were chosen by four million Black people emancipated after the Civil War.
—Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
Gwyneth Paltrow has always been an open book about facial injectables.
—Glamour, 8 Oct. 2023
Keke Palmer is not an open book anymore — and there's a good reason.
—Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2023
Christian Schneider, National Review, 4 Jan. 2024
Her eyes shut, she was draped in a robe with ermine trim, with an inkpot sitting on her skirt and one hand resting on an open book.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
Staunton’s Elizabeth is by comparison an open book, and its contents are disappointing.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
Whoopi Goldberg was an open book discussing her endometriosis journey on The View.
—Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
P!nk has always been an open book with her fans, sharing her triumphs and tragedies, celebrating her chart-topping hits and Summer Carnival tour and always sticking up for the underdog when bullies come calling.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2023
The centerpiece will be a new national monument commemorating freedom: a 43-foot-tall, 150-foot-long wall, angled like an open book and inscribed with more than 120,000 distinct surnames documented in the 1870 census that were chosen by four million Black people emancipated after the Civil War.
—Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
Gwyneth Paltrow has always been an open book about facial injectables.
—Glamour, 8 Oct. 2023
Keke Palmer is not an open book anymore — and there's a good reason.
—Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2023
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“An open book.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/an%20open%20book. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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