skeleton in the cupboard

When a company buys another company, the process of looking to see if there are any skeletons in the cupboard is known as due diligence.

Silence and protecting the institution at all costs, he wrote, “leads to personal and historical failure, and brings us to live with the weight of ‘keeping skeletons in the cupboard,’ as the saying goes.”

"All my life, I knew there was a skeleton in the cupboard, but nobody would say anything," says Alan, 77.

If Mr Brenninkmeijer is right, then instead of worrying about skeletons in the cupboard, a firm that squarely faces up to its yesterdays should learn how to behave better today.

When the commission interviewed Davies in June 2015 he did not mention any knowledge of delays or “Russian skeletons in the cupboard”.