The phrase "a skeleton in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of revealing a hidden secret or scandal, often related to someone's past.
Example: "Everyone has a skeleton in a closet that they hope will never be discovered."
Alternatives: "a hidden secret" or "a dark secret".
Tobacco critics protested the name change outside the meeting last year, dressing a skeleton in a scarf bearing the bland squares.
He was wearing camouflage pants and a punk-band T-shirt that said "DEAD BARS" above an illustration of a skeleton in a spacesuit.
At the entrance, visitors encounter a skeleton in a running pose handing a baton to a figure made of soft tissue.
There's a kind of customs station when you arrive here, where a skeleton in a black robe checks a big book to make sure your name's there.
They carried the coffin between two rows of flags held by members of the Untouchables Motorcycle Club dressed in black leather jackets bearing their logo: a skeleton in a trench coat wielding a smoking machine gun.
Scarborough also showed a clip from "Saturday Night Live," in which Bannon, presented as a skeleton in a black cloak, instructed Trump in the Oval Office before taking over his desk and consigning him to a smaller one.
When the human form does appear, it is likely to be a skeleton in an X-ray.
Open image in new window Fig. 4 The anthropological analyses conducted at CAL, resulting in the positioning of a skeleton in an anatomical position with associated artefacts.
Her new Halloween collection on DIY self publishing platform NewHive features a skeleton in an office chair, Britney Spears, and horrifiying chainsaw sound effects. .
Two local women stumbled upon a skeleton in an abandoned structure in Clark County; it was later identified as the remains of a female teenager who had been abducted and murdered several weeks before.
