| 词组 | have a clear conscience |
| 释义 | Idiom have a clear conscience (about sb or sth) and have a clean conscience (about someone or sth) Theme: GUILTLESSNESS to be free of guilt about someone or something.I'm sorry that John got the blame. I have a clean conscience about the whole affair.I have a clear conscience about John and his problems.I didn't do it. I have a clean conscience.She can't sleep at night because she doesn't have a clear conscience. have a clear conscienceTo be guiltless or have no feelings of guilt or remorse over something. Don't you dare accuse me of causing this, I have a clear conscience! Some people think I should have treated him better, but I have a clear conscience in this whole affair. have a clear conscience (about someone or something)and have a clean conscience (about someone or something)to be free of guilt about someone or something. I'm sorry that John got the blame. I have a clean conscience about the whole affair. I have a clear conscience about John and his problems. I didn't do it. I swear to that with a clean conscience. have a clear conscienceAlso, have a clean conscience. Feel free of guilt or responsibility. For example, I have a clear conscience-I did all I could to help. This idiom is also put as one's conscience is clear or clean , as in His conscience is clean about telling the whole story. The adjective clear has been used in the sense of "innocent" since about 1400; clean was so used from about 1300. clear conscience, to have aTo feel free from blame, obligation, or a similar burden because one is guiltless (or so believes). The sixteenth-century writer John Lyly used the term several times in his Euphues (1580)—“a cleere conscience is a sure card”—and the same phrase turned up in James Howell’s proverb collection of 1659. Nearly a century later Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Keep Conscience clear, then never fear” (Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1749). |
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