family skeleton

noun

1. a closely guarded family secret

Example Sentences

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.

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Not even a metatarsal of any family skeleton interested Bull Meecham if the family was not his own.

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George Bernard Shaw wrote: "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

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Hugh John proceeded cautiously to unwrap his family skeleton.

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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.

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