family skeleton
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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And sure, a memoir need not be a storage container for every family skeleton, but relevant narration — heartbreaking or otherwise — is, I’d argue, a big chunk of a writer’s basic job description.
From New York Times
Not even a metatarsal of any family skeleton interested Bull Meecham if the family was not his own.
From Literature
George Bernard Shaw wrote: "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
From The Guardian
Hugh John proceeded cautiously to unwrap his family skeleton.
From Project Gutenberg
Maud and Louise, regarding him and his business in the light of a family skeleton, ignored him as completely as a family skeleton can be ignored when it is of the kind that will not stay in its allotted closet.
From Project Gutenberg
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