to confess; to own up to; to admit to (to admit one has done something, especially something bad) · to confess (to disclose one’s sins to a clergyman) · to confess (to hear someone’s confessions)
çekim: geçmiş confessei · ortaç confessado · şimdiki confessa
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese confessar, from Ecclesiastical Latin cōnfessāre (“to confess”) (possibly an inheritance), a derivative of Latin cōnfessus, past participle of cōnfiteor (“to confess, to admit”) from con- + fateor (“to admit”).
To let the cat out of the bag; to disclose a secret; to let a secret be known, often inadvertently.
köken: From older die aap kom uit die mou (“a former secret becomes publicly known”), but influenced (both syntactically and semantically) by English let the cat out of the bag, which has also been calqued as die kat uit die sak laat.