Definition
To confess; admit the truth.
In Context
- ""You better come clean, Swan, and tell the whole thing. What was it? Don't talk in circles.""
- "Perhaps it is only fair to come clean at the start and confess that I found J.R.R. Tolkien's Unfinished Tales a disappointment."
- "When the sub got stuck, the brass kept the fact under wraps for 32 hours before Russia came clean and asked for foreign help."
Also Said As
- fess up
- own up