词组 | own up |
释义 | Idiom own up (to something) Theme: RESPONSIBILITY to confess to something.I know you broke the window. Come on and own up to it.The boy holding the baseball bat owned up. What else could he do? Phr V own up owns, owning, owned own up to admit that you have done something wrong, especially something that is not importantoften + toSomeone obviously broke the machine but no-one will own up to it.Come on, own up! Who's been using my mug? own up verb to admit, to confess US, 1853own up to admit that you have done something wrong, especially something that is not serious: Unless the guilty person owns up, the whole class will be punishedown up to (doing) sth No one ever owned up to breaking the window.■ SIMILAR TO: confess, admit own up (to something)To admit or confess (to doing something). Everyone knows you're responsible, so it will look better if you just own up. Tom finally owned up to eating my burrito. own up (to something)to admit something; to confess to something. I know you broke the window. Come on and own up to it. own upConfess, make a full admission, as in Come on, Tim, you'd better own up that you lost the car keys. This idiom uses the verb own in the sense of "acknowledge." [Colloquial; mid-1800s] own upv. To confess to something; admit something: If the person who stole the erasers doesn't own up, recess will be canceled. The thief owned up to the crime. own up (to), toTo admit something, to confess. Dating from the mid-1800s, this expression seems to use own in the sense of possessing responsibility for something. “On being arrested he owned up to his crime,” appeared in the Boston Journal (May 23, 1890). |
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