come clean
Example Sentences
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“I’d come clean with the voters about where we are fiscally.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026
An altercation with a nightclub bouncer in Wellington, a wasteful Ashes performance and a foolish attempt to hide the truth, for which he later had to come clean.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 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
However, Alison Downes, director of pressure group Stop Sizewell C, said ministers had not "come clean" about Sizewell C's cost, because "negotiations with private investors are incomplete".
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2025
You had your chance to come clean when Barrone interviewed you the day of the attack.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
