make a clean breast of

Verb

Meaning

admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

cough fess up own up

Hypernyms

concede confess profess

Examples

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. Arthur Schopenhauer

the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

make a choice make a citizen make a clean breast make a clean breast of it make a clean getaway make a cocktail