come clean with someone

come clean with (someone)

To admit something to someone, often regarding a wrongdoing that one has tried to hide. We have to come clean with the police before Joe gets punished for our crime! The kids finally came clean with me about eating the cookies I'd made for the bake sale. There's no way we can glue this thing back together. We're just gonna have to come clean with Mom that we broke her vase.

See also: clean, come

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come clean with someone

verb

See come clean with someone about something

See also: clean, come, someone

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