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- What does having skeletons in your closet mean?
- What is an example of the idiom skeleton in the cupboard?
- Is skeleton in the closet a metaphor?
- Where did the idiom a skeleton in the cupboard come from?
What does having skeletons in your closet mean?
informal. : something bad or embarrassing that happened in someone's past and that is kept secret. He asked if she had any skeletons in her closet that might affect her political campaign.
What is an example of the idiom skeleton in the cupboard?
idiom. He asked if she had any skeletons in her cupboard that might affect her political campaign.
Is skeleton in the closet a metaphor?
Skeletons in the Closet Meaning
Definition: A shameful secret that could seriously harm a person's reputation if people discovered it. The metaphor in this expression is clear. It likens a family or personal secret to a murder victim hidden in a closet.
Where did the idiom a skeleton in the cupboard come from?
Meaning to have hidden away a shameful or embarrassing secret, the term skeleton in the cupboard originates from the legalisation of human body dissections. Grave diggers would present corpses to doctors to dissect and, because of the controversy, the doctors would hide away their secrets in a locked cupboard.
