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 • Mar. 28, 2023
George Bernard Shaw wrote: "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013
How a family skeleton that strayed from its closet to the bottom of an abandoned standpipe endangered the lives of several likable people and gave a rural doctor his chance to play sleuth.
From Time Magazine Archive
At a luncheon given by Mayor Burnet Maybank, Mr. Garner made news by opening the closet and displaying the current Democratic family skeleton.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not even a metatarsal of any family skeleton interested Bull Meecham if the family was not his own.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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