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Idiom: Skeletons in the closet
No, this is not an idiom for Halloween.
Everybody has skeletons in their closet all year round.
Yes, even you!
Hang on now, before you start calling Ghostbusters, let me explain the idiom.
Remember that the individual words of an idiom do not have the same meaning as the idiom itself.
To have a skeleton in the closet means that someone has a secret.
Usually, it is an embarrassing secret.
Things like divorce, drug abuse, being arrested for drunk driving, failing university or losing a lot of money on the stock market could all be examples of secrets that we do not want other people to know.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 64.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.