make a clean breast



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.
See also: breast, clean, make

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
DÖLfDULFLimburgish
Antell['æntel]
Reginarə-JEEN-ə (English), rə-GEEN-ə (English), rə-JIEN-ə (English), re-GEE-nah (German, Polish), re-JEE-nah (Italian), RE-gee-naw (Hungarian)English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Swedish, Norweg
Sample['sæmpl]
Shu-Chinese
Eligiae-LEEG-yah (Polish)Polish, Late Roman