Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “skeleton in the cupboard/closet” and its meaning is “(embarrassing & unpleasant) things in a person’s past that he/she wants to be (kept) hidden/undisclosed”.
Example Sentence: Underlying it (i.e. centrism) is the belief that things are pretty OK now, that the people in charge should be trusted because power confers legitimacy, that those who want sweeping change are too loud or demanding or unreasonable, and that we should just all get along without looking at the skeletons in the closet and the stuff swept under the rug.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Stop glorifying ‘centrism’. It is an insidious bias favoring an unjust status quo and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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