| English | Russian |
| every family has a skeleton in the cupboard | у каждой избушки свои погремушки |
| (every family house, community has its own private/ problems and troubles every heart knows its own bitterness. it is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it a skeletons in every cupboard or closet.every house, ugly or nice, has its own problems and mice | под каждой крышей свой мыши ( NU[YK ) |
| it's like a skeleton at the feast о you started speaking with delight and finished with a sorry sight! | начал за здравие, а кончил за упокой (said about discrepancy between good beginning (e.g., good news, promising situation, words) and bad ending (e.g., later news, one's deeds)) |
| it's like a skeleton at the feast о you started speaking with delight and finished with a sorry sight! | начал за здравие, а свёл за упокой (said about discrepancy between good beginning (e.g., good news, promising situation, words) and bad ending (e.g., later news, one's deeds)) |
| there is a skeleton in every cupboard | у каждого есть грешок за душой (adivinanza) |
| there is a skeleton in every cupboard | в каждом шкафу есть скелет |
| there is a skeleton in every house | у каждой избушки свои погремушки |
