come clean with someone
come clean with (someone)
To admit something to someone, often regarding a wrongdoing that one has tried to hide. We have to come clean with the police before Joe gets punished for our crime! The kids finally came clean with me about eating the cookies I'd made for the bake sale.
See also: clean, come
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
come clean with someone
verbSee come clean with someone about something
See also: clean, come, someone
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- come clean
- come clean with (someone)
- come clean, to
- come clean about (something)
- come clean about something
- blow the whistle (on) (someone), to
- (as) clean as a hound's tooth
- silence
- blue code of silence
- code