pour one's heart out
English
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Verb
[edit]pour one's heart out (third-person singular simple present pours one's heart out, present participle pouring one's heart out, simple past and past participle poured one's heart out)
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To express one's innermost thoughts or feelings effusively.
- 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 29, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.:
- He poured his heart out to them, so as he never could in any other company, where he hath generally passed for being moody, or supercilious and silent.
- 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The Marble Faun:
- [S]he would be all the better for pouring her heart out freely, and would be glad to do it, if she were sure of sympathy
- 1994, Rolling Stones, Out of Tears:
- And I just can't pour my heart out, to another living thing, I'm a whisper, I'm a shadow, but I'm standing up to sing.
- 2009 July 2, “Our Favorite Songs: General Colin Powell”, in Time:
- The spirited lyrics, the dancing and the joy of watching these five handsome, clean-cut youngsters pouring their hearts out moved me then and moves me now.
Translations
[edit]to express one's innermost thoughts or feelings
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