make a clean breast of
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admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
MWE
Classifications
Cognitive
Understand85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Variants
- synonym
- fess upown up
- pasttense
- made a clean breast ofmaked a clean breast of
- presentparticiple
- making a clean breast of
- thirdpersonsingular
- makes a clean breast of
- pastparticiple
- made a clean breast ofmaked a clean breast of