Definition of "kitchen cabinet" [kitchen cabinet]

• A group of unofficial advisers to the head of a government. (noun)

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• "Next to Ole Smokey sat an ancient kitchen cabinet outfitted with metal bins for flour, sugar, coffee, and tea."
• "At one end, the end where Cousin Ann was ironing, stood the kitchen stove, gleaming black, with a tea-kettle humming away on it, a big hot-water boiler near it, and a large kitchen cabinet with lots of drawers and shelves and hooks and things."
• "She looked in my kitchen cabinet and saw stacks of cans of Heinz Vegetarian Beans."