skeleton in the cupboard

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skeleton in the cupboard - a scandal that is kept secret; "there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet"

skeleton in the closet, skeleton

scandal, outrage - a disgraceful event

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Perhaps the skeleton in the cupboard comes out to be talked to, on such domestic occasions?

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Jackie Grant Most people with a skeleton in the cupboard like to keep them there.

Dora has a bone to pick with vandals; Skeleton charity fundraisers trashed

The concert, on Sunday, also features Bartok's Transylvannian Dance No3 and Arnold Steck's Skeleton in the Cupboard. Conductor Michael Seal will oversee The Devil's Galop by Charles Williams and The Phantom Fairground by Ian Hughes.