broom closet

broom closet

The figurative place where one hides one's practice of Wicca or other Pagan religious beliefs or activities from other people, likened to a homosexual person being "in the closet" when they have not publicly revealed their sexual orientation. "Broom" is a reference to the stereotypical accessory of witches. I had been studying the intricacies of real witchcraft for several years before I came out of the broom closet to my parents.
See also: broom, closet
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • closet
  • land of Nod
  • the Land of Nod
  • bottom of the bag
  • bow the knee
  • burned out, to be
  • big jump
  • would give your right arm for something/to do something
  • give (one's) right arm
  • give your right arm
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When I took my first full-time job in the field in 1989, the facility had so little space for psychologists that we had to create a round-robin schedule for office use, often traipsing from one office to the other, packed briefcases in hand, and occasionally having to perform our practice in a hallway or broom closet. The shortage of space at that time reflected the broader lack of institutional commitment to mental health populations and practitioners that is not unknown in some departments of correction today.
The incident, I was told, would be referred to the "Communications Strike Force." That's the two interns in the broom closet with the fax machine."
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Rather than hold classes in the broom closet, the school moved two of them online to ease overcrowding, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
broom closet -- now I know how Harry Potter felt) next to the washroom.
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(Never mind the dusty broom closet they're housed in.) "You can't manage risk by doing nothing," Call adds.
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The compounds are sold on supermarket shelves and found in virtually every medicine cabinet and broom closet, as well as farms and factories.
The earliest uncontested record of Halley's Comet, from 240 B.C., described it as a "broom star." The return of Halley's Comet in 1910 prompted the American periodical Puck to pull the comet out of the broom closet again.
"We've graduated from a broom closet to walk-in closet," Plato reports.
In the modern archival profession, one of the small but nonetheless piercing aggravations of the job is the newspaper headline that reads "Lost [fill in the blank] Manuscript Found at Archives!" The image conveyed is of some intrepid investigator who came upon said manuscript in a broom closet where it had been left to moulder among the sponges and buckets.
Somehow I just couldn't imagine any of them caring whether Bill Clinton got to first base in the pantry, second base in a broom closet, or whether he did the whole hoo-hah while swinging from a trapeze.
He forces a carseat into a two-seater, a stroller into the broom closet, a bottle of baby juice into the wine rack.
You'd get to the hotel gym and find a broom closet with a bike in it," says Merker.