英语词汇don’t wash your dirty linen in public的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	don’t wash your dirty linen in public
词源	don’t wash your dirty linen in public. Anthony Trollope didn’t coin this phrase in The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867). What the hardworking novelist did was turn around the old French proverb Il faut laver son linge sale en famille, “One should wash one’s dirty linen in private.” Both sayings mean the same: don’t expose family quarrels or skeletons in public, keep discreditable things within the house where they in all decency belong. The “dirty linen” is considered discreditable to the per- son who washes it as well as his family and is usually exposed out of anger at a relative.
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