MAKE A CLEAN BREAST OF

I. (verb)

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:

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