A sock hangs from the partly open doors of a carved wooden wardrobe, with a small key on the floor.

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PC Lance Powell

He's so far in the closet, he might as well be in Narnia!

— The Bill ‧ 1983

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker jokes that someone is hidden so deeply about their sexuality that they may as well be in Narnia, the fantasy land reached through a wardrobe. The exaggeration turns the idiom of being 'in the closet' into a comic image of extreme concealment.

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