make a clean breast of

[make a clean breast of] {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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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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