Admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error.
1 Can I own up to thinking that it isn't actually very good?
2 If this is the problem why won't Disney own up to it.
3 Perhaps it'll be best if you own up to your mistakes straightaway.
4 Would they even own up to saying that in the first place?
5 And they had troubles of their own up at the station house.
6 I'll own up to my nature if you own up to yours.
7 It takes a man to own up to what he did, Chris.
8 I suppose you will own up when Mr. Grant comes home to-night.
9 Just how were you planning to, uh, own up to your misdeeds?
10 Poor Porson, he did not arrange his own up - bringing or his ancestors.
11 On Thursday she not only failed to own up , but indulged anew.
12 I own up I used to be pretty hot on such larkin'.
13 Now, Sylvia, own up that you think Charleston is nicer than Boston.
14 I always own up when I'm beaten, and I never bear ill-will.
15 I am sure she has repented marrying, but she won't own up .
16 And then he had to either drink the poison or own up .
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