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Phrase(s): Murder will out. Prov.Murder will always be discovered.; A bad deed will be found out. • Horace thought he had disposed of his victim in such a way that no one would ever discover his crime, but murder will out.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Certain news cannot be suppressed, as in He's being charged with embezzlement and fraud? murder will out, you know. This expression already appeared in Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale: "Murder will out that we see day by day." [Late 1300s]
American Heritage Idioms