a skeleton in the cupboard

Kahulugan

an embarrassing fact from someone's past that they hide

Nakahihiyang lihim mula sa nakaraan ng isang tao.

Mga halimbawa

1. 1Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard, and ours is Great-Uncle Harry’s secret first wife.
2. 2Before the interview, the journalists searched for a skeleton in the cupboard but found nothing.
3. 3Gran’s first marriage was a skeleton in the cupboard that nobody mentioned for fifty years.
4. 4The singer’s old emails turned out to be a skeleton in the cupboard that ended his career.
5. 5Does the new manager have a skeleton in the cupboard, or is her past really that clean?

Grammar

Countable ito: skeletons in the cupboard sa plural. Sa American English, a skeleton in the closet ang sinasabi. Kadalasan itong ginagamit pagkatapos ng have.