Brewer's: Exposé

(French). An exposing of something which should have been kept out of sight. Thus we say a man made a dreadful exposé i.e. told or did something which should have been kept concealed.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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