Some- one around here has a nasty little secret.
Often their new superiors were not even let in on the nasty secret.
There's that other letter, the one that could leak a nasty little secret.
She was on the edge of some nasty secret.
As it turns out, she's got a smack habit and a few other nasty secrets.
And then there was the number of nasty little secrets he had collected about the rest of them.
"Let's just say it's a nasty personal secret she'd prefer to keep from her husband."
"The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn," he said.
Call it old fashioned only if you feel that your own revelations, or nasty little secrets, are safe.
"This is social care's nasty little secret," the minister said.