clean breast

How to use clean breast in a sentence

• If a client goes to a lawyer for advice the first thing the lawyer asks him to do is to make a clean breast of it.

  Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton

• Was it not her duty to her child, to her husband, and to herself, to instantly make a clean breast of the whole mystery?

  The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3) | Charles James Wills

• But no, this time I am determined to make a clean breast of the thing—for I see that secrecy and solitude are what it feeds on.

  Love's Pilgrimage | Upton Sinclair

• Don't fib; brace up and make a clean breast of it, and if you need advice I am full of it.

  The Story of the Big Front Door | Mary Finley Leonard

• But Ive made a clean breast of it to dad, and though he gave me a hard calling down, hes forgiven me.

  Tom Fairfield's Schooldays | Allen Chapman