skeleton in the closet

Financial skeletons in the closet are not inherently disqualifying for a candidate for public office, said Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School and the former head of the city of L.A.’s ethics commission.

The least suggestion of marital infidelity, or any other skeleton in the closet, will be picked apart.

As much as he tried to find that one skeleton in the closet to explain it all, he couldn’t.

“You shouldn’t have any skeletons in the closet.”

It's left to other contributors to raise Britain's history around the slave trade, as well as the "skeletons in the closet" in the Royal Family.