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
Back then, I was fresh-ish out of the closet and had just started working as a columnist in Indianapolis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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
Leo is struggling to pull the futon mattress out of the closet.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
