hold/put your hands up
mainly UKto admit that something bad is true or that you have made a mistake:
I know I'm bossy and I hold my hands up to that.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Admitting & confessing
- acknowledge
- acknowledgment
- admittedly
- avow
- back down
- climb
- come clean idiom
- concessionary
- deny
- eat
- eat your words idiom
- hand
- I stand corrected idiom
- make a clean breast of it idiom
- own up
- retract
- say
- self-confessed
- swallow
- take sth back
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