a skeleton in the cupboard

Nghĩa

an embarrassing fact from someone's past that they hide

Chuyện đáng xấu hổ trong quá khứ mà ai đó giấu kín.

Ví dụ

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?

Ngữ pháp

Danh từ đếm được: số nhiều là skeletons in the cupboard. Tiếng Anh Mỹ nói a skeleton in the closet. Thường đứng sau have.