Public
Public adjective - Not known by only a select few.
Taken out
Both terms in one sentence
- Characters have been arrested being mistaken for criminals (dicebags look like drug paraphernalia, plotting an in game robbery in public gets taken out of context etc).
- So it's an Engineered Public Confession: taken out of context, but not a Frameup either.
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In Three To Tango, Matthew Perry's character has been Mistaken for Gay (it's actually his law partner who's gay, but a rambling public statement made by him was taken out of context), and he wonders why even people who know him believe it.
Source: Macho Masochism
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