I am where you hang your winter coats, but if you keep a skeleton inside me, I become a phrase for your deepest hidden secret. What am I?
A closet
A closet is a household storage room used for clothing and outerwear. The riddle references the famous idiom 'a skeleton in the closet,' which means an embarrassing or dark secret that someone keeps hidden from others. Linking the literal storage space with the idiomatic skeleton reveals the closet as the answer.
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