in plain view

More odd expressions:

—Who wears the shoes in that family?

—crazy as a button

—rigorous degradation

—into the Palladian gloom

—explaining the explanation

—unremarkable orbit

—pretty as a book

—face down in dirty snow

—a nether place that wants tending

—a reasonable member of the general community

Tessa Fielding and Constance Gogarty,  A Book of Lists.