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own up

Verb

Meaning

admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error

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Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? Frank Moore Colby

All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information. Walt Disney

When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it. Randy Jackson

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward. Edith Piaf

When we own up our mistakes some people interpret it as if we are wrong. They too commit mistakes. E. M. S. Namboodiripad

When we own up our mistakes some people interpret as if we alone were in the wrong. The fact is that just as we did, they also committed mistakes. If in the debate on Roopa Bhadrata we erred, people like Mundassery also erred equally. E. M. S. Namboodiripad

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