| 单词 | to make a clean breast of it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make a clean breast of it clean breast: a pure or untroubled heart, a clear conscience. Chiefly in to make a clean breast of: to unburden oneself by making a full disclosure or confession of (something, esp. one's mistakes or wrongdoings); to confess fully; also to make a clean breast of it in the same sense. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > reveal one's true character > confess subscribea1616 confess to1771 own1772 admit1830 to make a clean breast of1838 fess1840 to own up1844 to spit it out1855 to make a clean breast of it1878 cough1901 to come clean1919 to spill one's guts (out)1927 tell papa1929 OE Hymns (Julius A.vi) lxii. 17 in H. Gneuss Hymnar u. Hymnen im englischen Mittelalter (1968) 343 Prebe ut resistat nostra fides vitiis atque ministret studiis virtutum puro pectore : getyða þæt wiðstande ure geleafa leahtrum & þæt he þenige gecneordnyssum mihta on clænum breoste. 1671 E. Wettenhall Two Disc. Christian Piety & Devotion i. v. 224 The pleasure of devotion, and a clean breast kept thereby, will sweetly constrain us to a strict observance of it. 1753 Extracts Trial J. Stewart in Scots Mag. Oct. 508/1 He pressed him..to make a clean breast, and tell him all. 1838 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 96 I would have..made a clean breast of all my thinkings and doings. 1857 Examiner 1 Aug. 483/2 Sir Thomas Redington must show that his hands are clean, or, we should rather say, that he has a clean breast, unadorned with Mr Smith's buttons. 1878 W. Black Green Pastures xxiii. 184 I may as well make a clean breast of it. 1933 ‘N. West’ Miss Lonelyhearts 83 It's better to make a clean breast of matters than to let them fester in the depths of one's soul. 2017 @studioexec1 29 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 21 Oct. 2019) Come forward, make a clean breast of it, apologize BEFORE any accusations surface. < as lemmas |
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