An old proverb notes that every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.

Most families have a skeleton in the cupboard, sad Sid's skeleton has been hidden away for forty years...

When the Chief Inspector starts his preliminary investigation of the crime, it soon turns out that each of the guests has a skeleton in the cupboard.

Joyce pondered on the remark about a skeleton in the cupboard; what did it have to do with Tom being included in any extension of the incest principle?

DEAD MAN'S ISLAND When someone has a secret and doesn't want other people to know about it, we say that they have 'a skeleton in the cupboard'.

If the White House found out then Barnes would be out faster than a rat out of a hole, but sometimes it was prudent to have an employee with a skeleton in the cupboard because you had him where you wanted him and he did as he was told.

He looked like someone who was being forced to reveal a skeleton in the closet.

"Every family has a skeleton in the closet," David said when they were midway through the meal.

That kind always had a skeleton in the closet, Qwilleran thought.

"To me this is as scary as a skeleton in the closet at Halloween."

Now, rather than a skeleton in the closet, "Uncle Al" is more like a founding father.

'You talk as if she were a skeleton in the closet!'

And, more int'resting than all else, there was a skeleton in the closet.

Everybody has a skeleton in the closet; the thing is to keep 'em there and not at the feast."

A skeleton in the closet.

The song "A Skeleton in the Closet" by the metal band Anthrax is based on the story.

Mr. Oliveros said: "I was aware she had a skeleton in the closet.

A Skeleton in the Closet: A Novel (1893)

The film also uses such classics as a Pie in the face for the Ayatollah, and Dexter finding a Skeleton in the closet.

"A Skeleton In The Closet" is inspired by a Stephen King novella, "Apt Pupil".

A Skeleton In The Closet from the Rob Zombie tour, Salem Armory....

Differences in takes are minor, such as Tracy's ad lib with a skeleton in the closet, and Mae Busch's dialogue as a madam at a brothel.

"A Skeleton in the Closet" is based on the Stephen King novella "Apt Pupil" from the collection Different Seasons.

A Skeleton In The Closet from Among The Living All american, an evil game of extortion A sick old man, and who...

I don't think Roger is there yet, but if he doesn't win in the next few years, then perhaps that will become a little bit of a skeleton in the closet for him."

Miyata, Koichi, "Critical Comments on Brian Victoria's 'Engaged Buddhism: A Skeleton in the Closet?"

Brian Daizen Victoria, Senior Lecturer Centre for Asian Studies, University of Adelaide, Engaged Buddhism: A Skeleton in the Closet?

PORT JEFFERSON - "A Skeleton in the Closet," E. J. Wagner; 4 p.m.; Prism Gallery.

Some environmentalists have theorized that the Energy Department is not anxious to complete a detailed analysis of Hillside 881 because the presence of strontium would represent the physics equivalent of a skeleton in the closet, pointing to past misdeeds.

The US' long history of lynching parties and racial tension was seen as a skeleton in the closet for the country, which was exploited by the Soviet Union to point out hypocrisy when being reproached with alleged human rights violations, primarily during the Stalinist period, but also afterwards.

The less you felt, the louder you proclaimed your selfless love and servitude to others, in dread of ever letting them discover your own self, the self that you betrayed, the self that you kept in concealment, like a skeleton in the closet of your body.