fess up
informal— phrasal verb with fess uk/fes/us/fes/verb
to admit that you have done something that someone else will not like:
Fess up - it was you who ate that last piece of cake, wasn't it?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Admitting & confessing
- acknowledge
- acknowledgment
- admit
- admittedly
- avow
- back down
- climb
- come clean idiom
- concessionary
- eat
- eat your words idiom
- hand
- I stand corrected idiom
- make a clean breast of it idiom
- own up
- say
- self-confessed
- swallow
- swallow your words idiom
- take sth back
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