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skeleton in the cupboard

noun

Definitions

  1. A shameful secret.

    • ‘I expect all families have some skeletons in the cupboards,’ Robina said with a smile of understanding. ‘I know I have some relatives who embarrass me, but you have done nothing to be ashamed of that I can see.[…]’

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