"skeleton in the closet" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_texts": [
    "Composé de skeleton et de closet."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skeletons in the closet",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "notes": [
    "L’emploi initial de la locution serait britannique, avant d'être américain. La variante skeleton in the cupboard serait, selon le site World Wide Words, apparue à partir de 1858."
  ],
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "Joseph Adams, A Philosophical Treatise on the Hereditary Peculiarities of the Human Race: : with Notes illustrative of the subject, particularly in Gout, Scrofula and Madness. Londres, 1815. Emploi rapporté par le billet « Skeleton in the closet », sur le site World Wide Words.",
          "text": "In these, as in many other highly important questions, men seem afraid of enquiring after truth; cautions on cautions are multiplied, to conceal the skeleton in the closet or to prevent its escape."
        },
        {
          "ref": "William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Londres, 1855. Emploi rapporté rapporté par le billet « Skeleton in the closet », sur le site World Wide Words.",
          "text": "It is from these that we shall arrive at some particulars regarding the Newcome family, which will show us that they have a skeleton or two in their closets, as well as their neighbours."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Cadavre dans le placard."
      ],
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  "etymology_texts": [
    "Composé de skeleton et de closet."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skeletons in the closet",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
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    "L’emploi initial de la locution serait britannique, avant d'être américain. La variante skeleton in the cupboard serait, selon le site World Wide Words, apparue à partir de 1858."
  ],
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          "ref": "Joseph Adams, A Philosophical Treatise on the Hereditary Peculiarities of the Human Race: : with Notes illustrative of the subject, particularly in Gout, Scrofula and Madness. Londres, 1815. Emploi rapporté par le billet « Skeleton in the closet », sur le site World Wide Words.",
          "text": "In these, as in many other highly important questions, men seem afraid of enquiring after truth; cautions on cautions are multiplied, to conceal the skeleton in the closet or to prevent its escape."
        },
        {
          "ref": "William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Londres, 1855. Emploi rapporté rapporté par le billet « Skeleton in the closet », sur le site World Wide Words.",
          "text": "It is from these that we shall arrive at some particulars regarding the Newcome family, which will show us that they have a skeleton or two in their closets, as well as their neighbours."
        }
      ],
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        "Cadavre dans le placard."
      ],
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