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
"The skeleton in the cupboard," he muttered to himself gloomily.
From Kingdom of the Blind by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
There was no secret, no skeleton in the cupboard; the impecuniosity and the recurrent periods of plenty were both as open as the day.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
All the while, the picture remains hidden away, a very skeleton in the cupboard.
From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell
