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Confess, make a full admission, as in Come on, Tim, you'd better own up that you lost the car keys . This idiom uses the verb own in the sense of “acknowledge.” [ Colloquial ; mid-1800s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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