If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
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George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps everyone has one or two skeletons in their closet. We know that celebrities seem to explain themselves more.
Did you know…
The phrase ‘a skeleton in the closet’ was coined in England in the 19th century. Since then the word ‘closet’ has become used primarily in England to mean ‘water closet’, that is, lavatory – a possible hiding place for a skeleton I suppose, but not one with much potential. The English now usually use ‘a skeleton in the cupboard’, with ‘skeleton in the closet’ more common in the USA.
‘A skeleton in the closet’ undoubtedly originated as an allusion to an apparently irreproachable person or family having a guilty secret waiting to be uncovered. The close-at-hand domestic imagery of a closet or cupboard gives a sense of the ever-present risk of discovery.
What isn’t clear is whether the origin of the phrase lies in fiction or with real life, so to speak, skeletons! (source: http://www.phrases.org.uk/)
We think George Bernard Shaw was onto something, to make light of our own ‘skeletons’. But let’s talk (RIP Joan Rivers), don’t we just love to indulge in television shows like Scandal and Pretty Little Liars – some delicious, guilty and fictional pleasures?!
Besides, there are other beautiful items that we’d rather place inside our Ottawa closet.
