kitchen cabinet
Americannoun
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kitchen cabinets
plural
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a cupboard built into a kitchen or a chest of drawers for kitchen use, as for dishes and silverware.
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a group of unofficial advisers on whom a head of government appears to rely heavily.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of kitchen cabinet
An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
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A kitchen cabinet had come undone, and I needed a bracket and some glue to piece it back together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Be honest with yourself: Are you really going to use the dusty waffle maker in your kitchen cabinet?
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 23, 2026
“You really want to know: ‘What’s in the air, what’s in the water, what’s in the ash that blew into my kitchen cabinet?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
Haines joined Wilson's Downing Street operation in 1969 during his first term in office and went on to become part of the Labour leader's "kitchen cabinet" of close political advisers.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025
Each night he washed the one plate he used and wiped it dry and set it back in its place on top of the stack of dishes Thula had left behind in a kitchen cabinet.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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