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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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Words nearby come clean
come-at-able, come away, comeback, come between, come by, come clean, COMECON, comedian, comedic, Comédie Française, comedienne
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