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
Haven't you got a skeleton in the cupboard, old chap, which you hide even from yourself?
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
I'm the little guy that put the speck in Respectability: I'm the noisy little skeleton in the cupboard of your conscience.
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Brown, Arthur William
He would suppose there was something to be ashamed of—some skeleton in the cupboard.
From Fenwick's Career by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
