Meaning of closed book | Babel Free

Definitions

A person or thing that cannot be easily understood; someone or something incomprehensible or puzzling.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“Her courteous, sedate, inexorable husband, whose will she could not bend, whom she could not cajole, whose mind was a closed book to her — a book which had lain by her hand for three years, which she had never had the curiosity to open!”

“Like the activities of British Railways Research Department, developing, testing and modifying diesel locomotives before their acceptance for service is another behind-the-scenes activity which is a closed book to most passengers and to many railwaymen.”

CEFR level