out of the closet
Example Sentences
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A retinue assembled to escort the workers out of the closet, into their cars, and back home, without being tailed, without being detained.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025
"I would have been a happier person being out of the closet and being free," he told El Pais in 2024.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2025
"Let me tell you something: just come out of the closet boys. Come on, it's fun. You can be gay and conservative," he says in the video.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024
Mr. Biden “booted Netanyahu out of the closet of ambiguity and presented Netanyahu’s proposal himself,” Ben Caspit, a biographer and longtime critic of Mr. Netanyahu, wrote in Sunday’s Maariv, a Hebrew daily.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
Breakfast was no sooner over than the maids were back, pulling Camilla’s traveling coat out of the closet, lacing up her shoes for her, rummaging for hatpins.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
