Idiom
pull back the curtain
Meaning
To reveal an underlying truth.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The documentary pulls back the curtain on how they make our food.”
“The investigative report pulled back the curtain on the company's secret financial practices, shocking the public.”
“By examining the private letters of the artist, the biographer pulled back the curtain on the hidden struggles that defined his final years.”
Examples
simple
“The documentary pulls back the curtain on how they make our food.”
contextual
“The investigative report pulled back the curtain on the company's secret financial practices, shocking the public.”
complex
“By examining the private letters of the artist, the biographer pulled back the curtain on the hidden struggles that defined his final years.”
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