come clean

Idioms  

1. Confess everything, as in If you come clean about what happened I will promise to keep it to myself. [Slang; early 1900s]

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Example Sentences

"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

We will come clean with our own views on these races: Whatever, man.

From Slate

“I’d come clean with the voters about where we are fiscally.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

The pressure built so much and the frequency of the hospital visits became so crazy that it was like, you’re either going to be viewed as this very lazy, sometime-y person, or you’re going to come clean about what you’re actually dealing with and just face it.

From Los Angeles Times