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dirty linen
noun
personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
Also called dirty laundry.
Origin:
1945–50
1945–50
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Dirty laundry
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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