have a skeleton in the cupboard
UK (US have a skeleton in the closet)Definition
› to have an embarrassing or unpleasant secret about something that happened in the past: Most people have a few skeletons in the cupboard.
(Definition of have a skeleton in the cupboard from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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