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English Idiom: Make a clean breast of (something)
It is often much better to make a clean breast of it or tell the truth instead of keeping it to yourself or telling a lie.
If you told a lie, to make a clean breast of it means simply telling the truth instead of keeping it to yourself or continuing to lie.
Keeping secrets is not easy, especially if the secret is about something bad you have done.
It’s still the holiday season, and Santa is always watching for next year.
Christmas may be over for 2017, but it will come around again in 2018, just as soon as the sun rises every day and rain is wet.
So, if you’ve eaten the last candy cane off the tree or secretly finished off the last bottle of mulled wine, make a clean breast of it and admit what you did to your partner.
Yes, they may be upset with you for a little while, but hey, at least they know you’re honest, even if they can’t trust you.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 75.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.