as naked and blatant as a pig in a cathedral

[cimorene]

A knife in the fender, on a pillow, or under a chair is one thing, but a knife surrounded by the blank white wasteland of a ceiling has no shred of covering - is as naked and blatant as a pig in a cathedral.

—Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast

Comments

[buddleia]

I need to work that metaphor into an office conversation