family skeleton


noun
  1. a closely guarded family secret

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How to use family skeleton in a sentence

  • 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?

    Hearts and Masks | Harold MacGrath
  • For the moment she had forgotten that she was probably on the way to reveal the Starkweather family skeleton!

    The Girl from Sunset Ranch | Amy Bell Marlowe
  • It was high time they scanned the top shelves of the closet occupied by the dancing family skeleton!

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

    The Mayor of Warwick | Herbert M. Hopkins
  • 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.

    The Landloper | Holman Day