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emperor's new clothes

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1. emperor's new clothes pl (plural only) (idiomatic) Something obvious and embarrassing that is politely ignored or that goes unacknowledged. Source: ecdict

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clothes embarrassing goes idiomatic ignored new obvious plural politely something unacknowledged

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