kitchen cabinet

kitchen cabinet
1. a cupboard built into a kitchen or a chest of drawers for kitchen use, as for dishes and silverware.
2. a group of unofficial advisers on whom a head of government appears to rely heavily.
[1825-35, Amer.]

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