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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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Meanwhile, in Florida, Bush was flooded with questions about whether gay marriage could possibly come to the Sunshine State.
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These generally come from the outside, from cultural pressures and messages.
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But there is an underlying feeling that the worst is yet to come.
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With Charlie Hebdo, “you really have a clean case here,” Shearer said.
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My agent at the time sent that tape to SNL and then they asked me to come in for an audition.
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In their shelter, Brion and Ulv crouched low and wondered why the attack didn't come.
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Babylas raised his pale face; he knew what was coming; it had come so many times before.
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He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
Confidence|Henry James
Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.
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This wasn't at all what he meant to say, and it sounded very ridiculous; but somehow the words wouldn't come straight.
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