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
Prabhu	-	Hinduism, Tamil, Indian, Kannada
Abednego	ə-BED-ni-go (English)	Biblical
Anastasius	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Nikolas	-	Greek, English
Nita (1)	-	English
EmÍLia	-	Portuguese, Slovak, Hungarian