英语词汇“out of the closet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. colloquial (originally U.S.). out of the closet.

(a) Not seeking to conceal or deny one's homosexuality or any other aspect of one’s sexual or gender identity.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > [adverb] > openly acknowledging one's sexual orientation

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1965 Transvestia (Los Angeles) No. 36. 86 Give the ‘guy’ his due and don't forget him in the struggle to let ‘her’ out of the closet.

1970 Atlantic July 72/1 There are as many homosexuals per capita in Gloucester as anywhere else in the world, I suppose, but they are mostly in closets. This guy was long out of the closet.

2016 Internat. N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 June 9 Despite the celebration of gay liberation, many gay men were not out of the closet.

(b) More generally: not seeking to conceal something which, if revealed, could cause problems or embarrassment; open about a potentially problematic issue. Sometimes ironic.

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1983 Associated Press (Nexis) 16 July The Invisible Empire, one of several Klan groups, already is out of the closet to some extent.

2001 A. Dangor Bitter Fruit (2004) xxi. 238 I am just a middle-aged, white moffie, newly out of the closet, exposed for what I am in the greying of my life.

2011 Associated Press State & Local Wire (Nexis) 19 Apr. Vice President Joe Biden says Republicans are ‘out of the closet’ about their approach to dealing with the nation's federal budget woes.

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释义	> as lemmas out of the closet c. colloquial (originally U.S.). out of the closet. (a) Not seeking to conceal or deny one's homosexuality or any other aspect of one’s sexual or gender identity. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > [adverb] > openly acknowledging one's sexual orientation out of the closet1965 out1974 1965 Transvestia (Los Angeles) No. 36. 86 Give the ‘guy’ his due and don't forget him in the struggle to let ‘her’ out of the closet. 1970 Atlantic July 72/1 There are as many homosexuals per capita in Gloucester as anywhere else in the world, I suppose, but they are mostly in closets. This guy was long out of the closet. 2016 Internat. N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 June 9 Despite the celebration of gay liberation, many gay men were not out of the closet. (b) More generally: not seeking to conceal something which, if revealed, could cause problems or embarrassment; open about a potentially problematic issue. Sometimes ironic. ΚΠ 1983 Associated Press (Nexis) 16 July The Invisible Empire, one of several Klan groups, already is out of the closet to some extent. 2001 A. Dangor Bitter Fruit (2004) xxi. 238 I am just a middle-aged, white moffie, newly out of the closet, exposed for what I am in the greying of my life. 2011 Associated Press State & Local Wire (Nexis) 19 Apr. Vice President Joe Biden says Republicans are ‘out of the closet’ about their approach to dealing with the nation's federal budget woes. extracted from closetn.adj. < as lemmas
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