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MAKE A CLEAN BREAST OF
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
Example:
the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting
Synonyms:
fess up; make a clean breast of; own up
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "make a clean breast of" is one way to...):
concede; confess; profess (admit (to a wrongdoing))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
