go public about something private or hidden
to express an extremely private matter in public
to make the fact that a person is queer, public
He was in his late teens when he came out of the closet.
She came out of the closet quite late herself but now speaks about how others should make the move much sooner in their lives.
The counsellor advised him to come out of the closet to be able to get rid of his depression.
It took her long before she came out of the closet and expressed her interest in the biotechnology industry.
There is no origin for this idiom
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