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
He would suppose there was something to be ashamed of—some skeleton in the cupboard.
From Fenwick's Career by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
Then there’s another sayin’ which mayhap you’ve heard of too: ‘every man’s got a skeleton in the cupboard.’
From Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
I have told you that I would have no skeleton in the cupboard.
From The Duke's Children by Trollope, Anthony
