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family skeleton

noun

  1. a closely guarded family secret
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Do I look like a man who owned such a thing as a clothes-press, much less so fashionable a thing as a family skeleton?

For the moment she had forgotten that she was probably on the way to reveal the Starkweather family skeleton!

It was high time they scanned the top shelves of the closet occupied by the dancing family skeleton!

"I 'll not be elbowed out of the way and kept in the closet like a family skeleton any longer," he went on.

I am not asking you to expose a family skeleton—I'm demanding that you treat me as your attorney and trust to my discretion.

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