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
Umukoro	-	Western African, Urhobo
Frens	FRENS	Limburgish
Emmaline	EM-ə-leen	English
Ampelius	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Philon	-	Ancient Greek
JÚLia	ZHOO-lyə (Portuguese), YOO-lee-aw (Hungarian)	Portuguese, Catalan, Hungarian, Slovak