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

verb
See come clean with someone about something
See also: clean, come, someone
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • 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