family skeleton

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noun

a closely guarded family secret

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Words nearby family skeleton

family office, family plan, family planning, family practice, family room, family skeleton, family style, family support, family therapy, family tree, family-tree theory

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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