And can he maintain a carefully constructed lie when even his wife wants simply to make a clean breast of things?
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This time, the publisher insisted on meeting the author, which induced the former cabdriver to make a clean breast of the deception.
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Confession may be good for the soul, but making a clean breast of prior calamities can be dangerous for a dictatorial government.
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:: While making a clean breast of things might not be a bad idea, one does feel that it shouldn't be done by force.
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Corder spent the next three days in prison agonising over whether to confess to the crime and make a clean breast of his sins before God.
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They also feel the Vatican has yet to make a clean breast of the silence they say it maintained while the Nazis were slaughtering 6 million Jews.
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Those who did talk said everything should be done to make a clean breast of any improprieties so the city can get on with preparing for the games.
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Beast gets a boost from the relative rarity of breast, in Congreve's sense; today it survives mainly in idioms like breast-beating and make a clean breast of it.
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It is time that large companies undertaking projects that will ostensibly benefit the people make a clean breast of things from the onset and not create problems for themselves at later stages through their reticence.
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Yet he cannot bring himself to make a clean breast of it and confess that deed, as doing so would expose his beloved wife's infidelity and destroy her good name, as well as exposing the bastardy of her son.
admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error; "the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting" पर्याय: own up, fess up,