| Word | make a clean breast of something = make a clean breast of it |
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| Description | confess your mistakes or wrongdoings. In former times, many people believed that the breast or chest was where a person's conscience was located. The breast is still used metaphorically to represent the seat of the emotions. confess your mistakes or wrongdoings. In former times, many people believed that the breast |
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