come clean
Example Sentences
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Booth said England should have come clean much sooner about an incident involving white-ball captain Harry Brook on the tour of New Zealand that preceded the Ashes.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
"The prime minister's chief of staff is someone who has access to a lot of information," she said, urging the government to "come clean about what happened".
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
We will come clean with our own views on these races: Whatever, man.
From Slate • Mar. 21, 2026
His decades of painstaking research helped lead to a push in the 1990s for the Air Force to come clean on what it had been doing: testing spy balloons and recovering crash dummies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
“So,” Mom said, “we’re going to ask who took the chocolates. We’re going to look you in the eye and ask you, and you’d better come clean or there’ll be real trouble.”
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
