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Wear One’s Heart on One’s Sleeve 1100 Words You Need

Wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve

Wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve

to reveal your true feelings evidently, show your feelings, put one’s cards on the table, lay one’s cards on the table:

With Maurine it hadn’t been any way she had dressed, though; and back then girls scarcely wore any make-up, only a little lipstick. “Be careful,” Granny had told her. “Don’t wear your heart on your sleeve if you don’t want folks talking.” That was what Maurine had worn—her heart on her sleeve; if it hadn’t been for that Howard could have left the country, and she could have had her sick spell, and nobody would have started imagining anything.

Antonyms

keep a stiff upper lip

French: montre ses sentiments

Farsi: احساسات خود را نشان دادن

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