clean breast
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But until GE makes a clean breast of the chase-jet affair, Flannery may be dogged by the many still-unanswered questions about it.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2017
They’re not wrong, but did part of this come from their secretiveness and unwillingness to make a clean breast of things?”
From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2016
I did read — to make a clean breast of it — a King piece about Little League baseball that The New Yorker published in the early nineties.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2012
Dr. Butler goes on to make a clean breast of his career as educator, publicist, kingmaker, counsellor to politicians.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I do,” Lawson said, adding, “I want to make a clean breast of it.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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