Usually means: Deception revealed by innocent truth.
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We found 5 dictionaries that define the word emperor's new clothes:

General (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. the emperor's new clothes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. emperor's new clothes: Wiktionary
  3. Emperor's New Clothes, Emperor's New Clothes (fable), Emperor's New Clothes (song), Emperor's new clothes, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Emperor's New Clothes (song), The emperor's new clothes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Emperor's New Clothes, The Emperor's New Clothes: Encyclopedia

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  1. the emperor's new clothes: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (emperor's new clothes)

noun:  (idiomatic) Something obvious and embarrassing that is politely ignored or that goes unacknowledged.

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