come clean
This page is about the idiom come clean
Meaning
If you come clean about something, you let people know about it after keeping it a secret.
For example
- The President should come clean with the people and admit that there's been corruption in the government.
- If he'd just come clean about his mistake, we could solve the problem and then move on.
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Contributor: Matt Errey