英语词汇come out of the closet的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	come out of the closet
词源	come out of the closet. To acknowledge that one is a homo- sexual. Though the expression is first recorded in this sense in 1971, it is much older in other meanings. For instance, the great scholar and writer Joseph Addison (1672–1719) wrote: “I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought phi- losophy out of closets, schools and libraries, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee-houses.” See cato conspiracy; catiline.
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