make a clean breast

To confess one's misdeeds or wrongdoings. I felt so guilty about cheating on the test that I had to make a clean breast of it to my teacher.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Montserrat	moon-sə-RAHT	Catalan
Vavrinec	-	Slovak
Issur	-	Yiddish
Neha	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Telugu
Tzeitel	-	Yiddish
Parthenope	-	Greek Mythology