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make a clean breast of it idiomUK to tell the truth about something: 全盘招供;和盘托出 Julia finally made a clean breast of it and admitted that she had stolen the money.朱莉娅最终坦白了,承认是她偷了钱。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Admitting & confessing acknowledge something as something acknowledgedly acknowledgment admission of guilt admittedly avowedly breastbeating clean climb down come cleanidiom confess hand retraction self-admittedly self-confessed self-confessedly self-confession stand swallow your wordsidiom take something back
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