make a clean breast of it
UKto tell the truth about something:
Julia finally made a clean breast of it and admitted that she had stolen the money.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Admitting & confessing
- acknowledge
- acknowledgment
- admit
- admittedly
- avow
- back down
- climb
- come clean idiom
- concessionary
- deny
- eat
- eat your words idiom
- hand
- I stand corrected idiom
- own up
- retract
- say
- self-confessed
- swallow
- take sth back
See more results »