in the closet

prep_phrase
/ɪn ðə ˈklɑzɪt/US/ɪn ðə ˈklɒzɪt/UK

Definitions

  1. Not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.

    • Was he in control of that narrative? Most likely not. If he’d had the choice, he would have stayed in the closet.
  2. Not open about some feature of one's life

    Not open about some feature of one's life; often construed with about.

    • She's in the closet about her gambling addiction.
    • She's in the gambling-addiction closet.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for in the closet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA