Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

skeleton in one's cupboard

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English

Syllables: skele-ton in one's cup-board
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

3

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of skeleton in the cupboard.

Example Sentences

"Poor fools that we are—waiting for a crumb from the free man’s table! We’re none of your business! We’re just the skeleton in Europe’s cupboard."
"Just as we ought, if we mean our faith at all, to give up being nervous about Church history, for the Church will never die because of the skeletons in her cupboards, so we ought to give up being nervous about the Bible: either defensive of it or defensive against it."
"What neither of us knew at the time was that when I set about preparing my speech, knowing now that there were skeletons in John’s cupboard, it was only natural for me to want to find them and so approach the very people who knew about them, his other friends."

Inflected Forms

skeletons in one's cupboard (plural) skeletons in one's cupboards (plural)

Questions

What does skeleton in one's cupboard mean?: Alternative form of skeleton in the cupboard.

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