SECRET DE POLICHINELLE

PRONUNCIATION: (SEE-krit uv po-LISH-i-nel)

MEANING: noun: A supposed secret that's widely known: an open secret.

ETYMOLOGY: From French secret de Polichinelle. Polichinelle (English Punch or Punchinello) was a stock character in Italian puppetry. Earliest documented use: 1828.

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SECRET DE POLICE IN ELLE - She knows all the dirt about those Paris cops