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What is dirty laundry?

What is dirty laundry? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) Unflattering facts or questionable activities that one wants to remain secret, but which some other may use to blackmail with.
  2. Laundry that is unclean or soiled
  3. (by metonymy) A clothes hamper or other container in which soiled laundry is placed.
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We are flouting this law of basic economics, waving our 620 billion dollars of foreign debt like so much dirty laundry.
Under a pile of dirty laundry, she retrieved two large flashlights and some batteries.
Nobody write another paragraph on Vietnam or the National Guard or muddy politics or dirty laundry.
I'm not going to write about this here, because it wouldn't be fair and I don't believe in washing my dirty laundry in public.
Goldman ferrets through the dirty laundry of the movie business and examines the stains with forensic detail.
One day, in comes a gangly, loud-talking hippie longhair sporting a shirt fresh off the dirty laundry pile.

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