Murder will out
Crime or wrongdoing will eventually be discovered and punished.
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murder will outCertain news cannot be suppressed, as in He's being charged with embezzlement and fraud—murder will out, you know. This expression already appeared in Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale: “Murder will out that we see day by day.” [Late 1300s]
Murder will out
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murder will out
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Director Mervyn LeRoy has tried halfheartedly to keep the suds from showing, but soap opera, like murder, will out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sirs: Truth, like murder, will out eventually, has, as a matter of fact, come out in this matter already.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fyodor Dostoievsky's solemn sermon to the effect that murder will out has been dramatized before and will doubtless be dramatized again.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inasmuch as meaning, like murder, will out, each of us has only the choices of seeking it out for ourself or letting it passively happen.
From Time Magazine Archive
But "murder will out," etc., etc.; and with this and other similar maxims Edith's condemnation was settled by the public mind.
From The Living Link by De Mille, James
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