Nothing lifts the vail on the nature of a puppeteer better than the revelation of the man behind the curtain ... "
Carlo Collodi
Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
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Lifting the veil refers to:
Divulging, explaining, or revealing something that was previously a secret.
Looking behind the legal facade of a company and paying regard to the realities behind it.When the Courts ignore the company and directly concern themselves with the members or managers.
Katie Couric’s slam on MAGA voters lifts the veil on Dem groupthink
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"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" is a memorable quote from The Wizard of Oz. It is used to describe someone who is in the background secretly plotting and conspiring or also a hypocrite of great proportions. Online, the phrase can be encountered on a variation of image macros, GIFs and videos, related to the trope of maintaining an illusion.
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puppeteer
noun
a person who works puppets.
Similar:
exploiter
user
maneuverer
spin doctor
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revelation
noun
a surprising and previously unknown fact, especially one that is made known in a dramatic way:
"revelations about his personal life"
Similar:
disclosure
divulgence
declaration
utterance
announcement
the making known of something that was previously secret or unknown:
"the revelation of an alleged plot to assassinate the king"
Similar:
divulging
divulgence
telling
disclosure
disclosing
used to emphasize the surprising or remarkable quality of someone or something:
"seeing them play at international level was a revelation"
the divine or supernatural disclosure to humans of something relating to human existence or the world:
"an attempt to reconcile Darwinian theories with biblical revelation" · "a divine revelation"
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