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Murder will out

  1. Crime or wrongdoing will eventually be discovered and punished.


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Idioms and Phrases

Certain news cannot be suppressed, as in He's being charged with embezzlement and fraudā€”murder will out, you know . This expression already appeared in Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale: ā€œMurder will out that we see day by day.ā€ [Late 1300s]
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Example Sentences

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ā€˜Blood Simpleā€™ Murder will out in the Coen brothersā€™ nasty little 1984 indie noir about a Texas bartender having an ill-advised affair with his bossā€™ wife.

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Murder will out as ā€œThe Alienist: Angel of Darknessā€ ends its season with back-to-back episodes.

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Murder will out in the conclusion of the eight-part adaptation of Italian novelist Umberto Ecoā€™s medieval mystery ā€œThe Name of the Rose.ā€

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Murder will out in ā€œThe Black Cat.ā€

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Murder will out in the imported six-part family drama/psychological thriller ā€œBloodā€ starring ā€œGrantchesterā€™sā€ Carolina Main and ā€œLine of Dutyā€™sā€ Adrian Dunbar.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Ā© Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American HeritageĀ® Idioms Dictionary copyright Ā© 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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