Skeleton in the closet or skeleton in the cupboard is a colloquial phrase and idiom used to describe an undisclosed fact about someone which, if revealed, would damage perceptions of the person. It evokes the idea of someone having had a human corpse concealed in their home so long that all its flesh had decomposed to the bone. \"Cupboard\" may be used in British English instead of the American English word \"closet\". It is known to have been used as a phrase as early as at least November 1816. It is listed in both the Oxford English Dictionary, and Webster's Dictionary, under the word \"skeleton\". The \"Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary\" lists it under this but also as a separate idiom. In the most derisive of usage, murder, or significant culpability in a years-old disappearance or non-understood event, may be implied by the phrase.
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The Javan black-capped babbler is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae.\nIt is endemic to the island of Java in Indonesia. The Malayan black-capped babbler and the Bornean black-capped babbler were both formerly considered conspecific, but were split from it in 2021.\nIts natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.
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The 2006 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 135th Open Championship, played from 20 to 23 July at Royal Liverpool Golf Club. Tiger Woods held off Chris DiMarco, Ernie Els, Jim Furyk, and Sergio García for a two-shot victory. The win was his second consecutive Open Championship title and third overall. It was also Woods' first major tournament win since the death of his father, Earl Woods, in May.
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