英语词汇“to bring out of the closet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. to bring (also drag, etc.) (something) out of the closet: to expose for public scrutiny or to public knowledge (something which has previously been concealed or kept secret); to bring out into the open.Earliest with skeleton as object (cf. skeleton in the closet at skeleton n. 1b).

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1857 Punch 16 May 191/2 I can readily imagine two vicious old maids, keenly relishing a good ‘go-in’ at the reputation or circumstances of their friends. I can conceive their bitter pleasure in..routing out some grim skeleton from its closet in the house of a common acquaintance.

1892 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 1 Mar. 6/1 Seeing the spectre of prohibition dragged out of the closet in every political campaign.

1934 Liberty 11 Aug. 27/1 I wasn't sure if I'd better drag the subject out of the closet and rattle the bones.

1954 Waukesha (Wisconsin) Daily Freeman 11 Mar. 3/6 His object..is to take the subject ‘out of the closet’ as society has done with tuberculosis, mental diseases patients and the communicable diseases.

1977 Times of India 18 Mar. 8/4 Chronic failure to meet plan targets and facts of general mismanagement, corruption and inefficiency have been brought out of the closet and tabled in the central committee's own political report.

2005 Independent 5 Dec. 32/6 The answer to the heinous problem of sexual slavery is to bring prostitution out of the closet and allow proper licensed zones for it.

单词	to bring out of the closet
释义	> as lemmas to bring (also drag, etc.) (something) out of the closet a. to bring (also drag, etc.) (something) out of the closet: to expose for public scrutiny or to public knowledge (something which has previously been concealed or kept secret); to bring out into the open.Earliest with skeleton as object (cf. skeleton in the closet at skeleton n. 1b). ΚΠ 1857 Punch 16 May 191/2 I can readily imagine two vicious old maids, keenly relishing a good ‘go-in’ at the reputation or circumstances of their friends. I can conceive their bitter pleasure in..routing out some grim skeleton from its closet in the house of a common acquaintance. 1892 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 1 Mar. 6/1 Seeing the spectre of prohibition dragged out of the closet in every political campaign. 1934 Liberty 11 Aug. 27/1 I wasn't sure if I'd better drag the subject out of the closet and rattle the bones. 1954 Waukesha (Wisconsin) Daily Freeman 11 Mar. 3/6 His object..is to take the subject ‘out of the closet’ as society has done with tuberculosis, mental diseases patients and the communicable diseases. 1977 Times of India 18 Mar. 8/4 Chronic failure to meet plan targets and facts of general mismanagement, corruption and inefficiency have been brought out of the closet and tabled in the central committee's own political report. 2005 Independent 5 Dec. 32/6 The answer to the heinous problem of sexual slavery is to bring prostitution out of the closet and allow proper licensed zones for it. extracted from closetn.adj. < as lemmas
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