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
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- make a clean breast of
- make a clean breast of (something)
- make a clean breast of it
- make a clean breast of something
- pay the price
- pay the price, to
- pay the price/penalty
- penalty
- pay the penalty
- tribulation