Meaning of skeleton in one's house | Babel Free

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Noun. [C2]

Examples

“Her cousin and her rash promise to him are the skeletons in her house: he tyrannizes over her, and she is obliged to consent to much evil, for the cousin has embarked in railway speculations, and involved the house, of which he is the manager, in very hazardous operations, and run himself personally into debt, and he claims May’s interest to shield and uphold him and to get him taken into partnership.”

“Every man seems to have a skeleton in his house of some kind or other, and we find it out to a certainty if any exists.”

“Why did not the German and Austrian Governments, similarly to the English, French, Russian, Belgian, Italian and Serbian Governments, immediately after the outbreak of the war, publish their official documents relating to the war’s preliminary history in a collection of some completeness? Because they knew of the skeleton in their house, their own secret documents; […]”

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