skeleton in the cupboard
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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
There was no secret, no skeleton in the cupboard; the impecuniosity and the recurrent periods of plenty were both as open as the day.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
Zola's truth answers the exact description of the skeleton in the cupboard; that is, it is something of which a domestic custom forbids the discovery, but which is quite dead, even when it is discovered.
From All Things Considered by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Ambrose was aware of the skeleton in the cupboard.
From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith
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