- fess up (to something)
- fess up (to something)to confess to having done something. (Short form of
confess
.) •I tried to get the boy to fess up to doing it, but he wouldn't do it.
•Come on, fess up.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
fess up (to something)
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