Skeleton In The Cupboard (Noun)
Meaning
A scandal that is kept secret; "there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet".
Classification
Nouns denoting natural events.
Examples
- The company tried to keep the embezzlement a skeleton in the cupboard, but the truth eventually came out.
- There must be a skeleton in the cupboard that's causing the CEO's sudden resignation.
- Her seemingly perfect life turned out to be a facade, hiding a deep skeleton in the cupboard that nobody knew about.
- Several skeletons in the cupboardsurfaced after the political scandal investigation began.
- Their outwardly respectable family turned out to have more than one skeleton in the cupboard that they desperately tried to conceal.