- someone's dirty laundry
- someone's dirty laundryFig. someone's unpleasant secrets. •
I don't want to hear about her dirty laundry. Why do you feel it necessary to gossip about things like this?
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
someone's dirty laundry
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