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"wear your heart on your sleeve." what does this mean??

please answer. thanks.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    It means you let everyone see how you feel. You can't hide your feelings and emotions.

  • irish1
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    In medieval times, knights went into tournaments or battle wearing a token of a lady's affection (usually a handkerchief or ribbon) tied around his arm. This open display of where his affections lay gave rise to the phrase "to wear one's heart upon one's sleeve".

    Shakespeare made the saying famous in 'Othello':

    "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at."

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    When you wear your heart on your sleeve, everyone can see your feelings...

    Essentially it means that you're too passionate or emotional, not hiding your feelings in the slightest.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    It skill to overtly coach your emotions. human beings like that commonly coach that they are truly satisfied, or truly unhappy. frequently they don't have any problems with crying in public. also, they are commonly very emotional and cry actual. at times those who "placed on their hearts on their sleeves" actual get their emotions damage. There are those who cover their hearts away in a dismal storage room also. yet you should imagine what meaning. for sure, someone who would not cry actual or get their emotions damage actual. extra women than boys "placed on their hearts on their sleeves," yet i have seen adult adult males that do.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That you're an emotional person and easily affected by something someone might say - that people can tell what you're feeling because your emotions show on your face or in what you do

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    hmm..,

    how do i put this...

    wearing your heart on your sleeve is like your putting yourself out there to get hurt. like real your emotional...you express your feelings on the outside its obivious...

    good enough??

  • 1 decade ago

    It means you should not play poker for a living.

  • 1 decade ago

    its somthing along the lines of one that that is said about is heartless/and or your emotions show alot more than others do.

  • 1 decade ago

    You have nothing to hide.....everything you think and feel is out there for all to see.

  • 1 decade ago

    That means your the kind of person who lets themselves get really involved emotionally!

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