unspoken snake
The betrayal or deception that everyone in a group has quietly clocked but nobody has said out loud yet.
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The betrayal or deception that everyone in a group has quietly clocked but nobody has said out loud yet. Unspoken snake is the open secret of a social circle — the person whose fake behavior is widely sensed but unconfirmed, the elephant in the room that everyone's waiting for someone else to name first. There's a strange tension in an unspoken snake situation: collective awareness with collective silence, until eventually someone says it and the whole group exhales.
There was an unspoken snake situation with him for months — everyone knew something was off, nobody wanted to be the one to say it.
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