English

Proverb

murder will out

1. a murderer will always be discovered.
2. (idiomatic) secrets or hidden crimes will eventually be exposed or discovered; nothing that is secret can remain a secret forever.

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References

• “murder will out” in The American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005.
• “murder” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• "English Legal Proverbs", Donald F. Bond, PMLA, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Dec., 1936), pp. 927.