come clean
to tell the truth about something that you have been keeping secret:
I thought it was time to come clean (with everybody) about what I'd been doing.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Admitting & confessing
- acknowledge
- acknowledgment
- admittedly
- avow
- back down
- climb
- concessionary
- deny
- eat
- eat your words idiom
- hand
- I stand corrected idiom
- make a clean breast of it idiom
- own up
- retract
- say
- self-confessed
- stand
- swallow
- take sth back
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