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Murder will out
- Crime or wrongdoing will eventually be discovered and punished.
Idioms and Phrases
Certain news cannot be suppressed, as in He's being charged with embezzlement and fraudāmurder will out, you know . This expression already appeared in Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale: āMurder will out that we see day by day.ā [Late 1300s]Example Sentences
āBlood 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.
Murder will out as āThe Alienist: Angel of Darknessā ends its season with back-to-back episodes.
Murder will out in the conclusion of the eight-part adaptation of Italian novelist Umberto Ecoās medieval mystery āThe Name of the Rose.ā
Murder will out in āThe Black Cat.ā
Murder will out in the imported six-part family drama/psychological thriller āBloodā starring āGrantchesterāsā Carolina Main and āLine of Dutyāsā 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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