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To confess; admit.
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Should I come clean about eating the leftover chicken, or just blame it on the dog?
Submitted on August 31, 2012
More phrases:
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- face up to
- move on
- pick up
- play around
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- tie up
- zero in on
- bells and whistles
- brass ring
- by and large
- cut and dried
- dark horse
- deafening silence
- dog and pony show
- drop a dime
- ears are burning
- eat one's words
- elbow room
- fit as a fiddle
- follow through
- from cover to cover
- go for it
- go out of one's way
- golden opportunity
- hang out one's shingle
- have truck with
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- if only
- in light of
- jump the gun
- keep a close watch on
- keep one on one's toes
- light up
- lion's share
- not be caught dead
- nugget of truth
- odd and curious
- of late
- oh dark thirty
- on the nose
- on the nose
- on the right track
- one thousand
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- raise the bar
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