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come clean

verb

Definitions

  1. To confess

    To confess; admit the truth.

    • "You better come clean, Swan, and tell the whole thing. What was it? Don't talk in circles."
    • Perhaps it is only fair to come clean at the start and confess that I found J.R.R. Tolkien's Unfinished Tales a disappointment.
    • When the sub got stuck, the brass kept the fact under wraps for 32 hours before Russia came clean and asked for foreign help.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA