clean breast Идиома

make a clean breast of it

tell all you know about it, admit what you did The man went to the police and made a clean breast of his crime.

make a clean breast of

Idiom(s): make a clean breast of sth

Theme: CONFESSION

to confess something.
• You'll feel better if you make a clean breast of it. Now tell us what happened.
• I was forced to make a clean breast of the whole affair.

Make a clean breast

If someone makes a clean breast, they confess in full to something they have done.

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v. phr. To admit (your guilt); tell all about (your wrong doing); confess everything. The police caught the hit-and-run driver and he made a clean breast of his crime. Arthur worried because he cheated on the test, and finally he went to the teacher and made a clean breast of it.
Compare: OFF ONE'S CHEST.

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clean breast
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make a apple-pie breast of (something)

To acknowledge one's misdeeds or wrongdoings. I acquainted so accusable about cheating on the analysis that I had to accomplish a apple-pie breast of it to my teacher.Learn more: breast, clean, make, of

make a apple-pie breast of it

make a apple-pie breast of something (to someone)

Fig. to accept article to someone. You should accomplish a apple-pie breast of the amount to someone. You'll feel bigger if you accomplish a apple-pie breast of the incident.Learn more: breast, clean, make, of

make a apple-pie breast of

Confess fully, as in Caught shoplifting, the girls absitively to accomplish a apple-pie breast of it to their parents. This expression, aboriginal recorded in 1752, uses clean breast in the faculty of acknowledgment of one's heart, the breast continued advised the bench of clandestine or abstruse feelings. Learn more: breast, clean, make, of

make a apple-pie breast of

To acknowledge fully.Learn more: breast, clean, make, of

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clean breast Идиома

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Make a clean breast

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clean breast

make a apple-pie breast of (something)

make a apple-pie breast of it

make a apple-pie breast of something (to someone)

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make a apple-pie breast of

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