skeleton in the cupboard
Example Sentences
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Indeed, but there is a skeleton in the cupboard!
From The Guardian • Aug. 28, 2011
Some less saintly cameos leaven plenty of other Good Samaritan deeds but for every skeleton in the cupboard there are probably at least three beneficiaries of Reid's generosity.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2011
I'm the little guy that put the speck in Respectability: I'm the noisy little skeleton in the cupboard of your conscience.
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Brown, Arthur William
Perhaps the skeleton in the cupboard comes out to be talked to, on such domestic occasions?
From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles
"The skeleton in the cupboard," he muttered to himself gloomily.
From Kingdom of the Blind by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
