with the lid off

[wɪð ði lɪd ɔf][wið ðə lid ɔf]

adv.开着盖子,使丑事暴露

  • Primitive people like children and animals are simply civilized people with the lid off .

    原始人,如儿童与野兽一般,只是文明人 原形毕露而已。

  • Compared with such things what is the letter you have just read ? The clever journalists blew the lid off the Watergate scandal .

    这些丑事相比,您刚才所读的 封信算什么?联盟的新闻工作者 揭露了水门丑闻的真相。