What is "in the open"

Usage examples of "in the open".

All of the important files that make Linux systems work are right out in the open.

If a drunken savage elects to cock a fire-arm, a gentleman advancing towards him in the open cannot wait to make sure if it be charged.

The head part was in the brush and the rest lay out there naked in the open.

She stood in the open doorway, a stolid, dumpy, dowdy woman with an angular face that had a set of stubbornness and of purpose in it.

Here their rocket launchers and everything they use are set up right out in the open—.

Jason stood as close as he dared to the spot it had gone in, then realized he was out in the open, and turned to walk back toward the foliage.

He stood in the open doorway, respecting her space but making his presence felt.

Not daring to risk any more time out in the open, I climbed into the one closest to the back of the bus and lowered the lid.

The grand houses of pink and green and azure stucco were weather-stained and crumbling, and Mondschein observed ugly random outcroppings of tin-roofed squatter-shacks sprouting like mushrooms in the open fields behind them, where elegant gardens briefly had been.

Then he pushed with his hand in the open air along the road to Khanhiwara, and went back to his Jungle, and watched the Jungle People drifting through it.

I think the careful way in which I picked my course, stepping in the open as much as possible, helped to reassure the people.

All of his life, he now sees, he has been surrounded by ordnance, by gleaming machinery of one description or another, the planes carrying him like an embryo in their thin, shaking, gusty surfaces, then later in the open cars and closed offices of politics, the experiments with hunting and high-caliber bullets which he had carried on at Hyannisport over the weekends, just as a means of getting away, then the years after the Presidency running around the country in high-speed machines, sometimes with the Secret Service in tow, more often not, tracking the highways of his doom, watching America stream by him.

All of his life, he now sees, he has been surrounded by ordnance, by gleaming machinery of one description or another, the planes carrying him like an embryo in their thin, shaking, gusty surfaces, then later in the open cars and closed offices of politics, the experiments with hunt­.

But we also do have to consider whether working out in the open would come to the enemy’.

Before we go to work, we must weigh the risks to city folk against those to the project as a whole from starting up a pile out in the open, so to speak.