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lay bare something

to discover or tell people about something that was not previously known or was previously kept secret. It's been promoted as the biography that lays bare the truth behind the legend.

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Succeeding years, too wild for song, Then rolled like tropic storms along, Where, through the garish lights that fly Dying along the troubled sky, Lay bare, through vistas thunder-riven, The blackness of the general Heaven, That very blackness yet doth Ring Light on the lightning's silver wing. Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context The entire column had passed out of sight: the straight white road lay bare and desolate in the moonlight! Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context The latter had never been under-drawn: its entire anatomy lay bare to an inquiring eye, except where a frame of wood laden with oatcakes and clusters of legs of beef, mutton, and ham, concealed it. Wuthering Heights by Bronte, Emily View in context More results

References in classic literature

Succeeding years, too wild for song, Then rolled like tropic storms along, Where, through the garish lights that fly Dying along the troubled sky, Lay bare, through vistas thunder-riven, The blackness of the general Heaven, That very blackness yet doth Ring Light on the lightning's silver wing.

Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context

The entire column had passed out of sight: the straight white road lay bare and desolate in the moonlight!

Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context

The latter had never been under-drawn: its entire anatomy lay bare to an inquiring eye, except where a frame of wood laden with oatcakes and clusters of legs of beef, mutton, and ham, concealed it.

Wuthering Heights by Bronte, Emily View in context

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