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[air one's
dirty linen in public] or [wash one's dirty linen in public] {v. phr.} To talk
about your private quarrels or disgraces where others can hear; make public
something embarrassing that should be kept secret.
Everyone in the school knew
that the superintendent and the principal were angry with each other because they
aired their dirty linen in public.
No one knew that the boys' mother was
a drug addict, because the family did not wash its dirty linen
in public.
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