Murder will out

Cultural  

1. Crime or wrongdoing will eventually be discovered and punished.

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murder will out Idioms  

1. Certain 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]

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Example Sentences

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

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

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 there is a belief—not always borne out by facts—that "murder will out"; a faith that, "though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small."

From Stories of the Border Marches by Lang, Jeanie