keep own counsel Idioma
keep one's own counsel
Idiom(s): keep one's own counselTheme: SECRECY
to keep one's thoughts and plans to oneself; not to tell other people about one's thoughts and plans.
• Jane is very quiet. She tends to keep her own counsel.
• I advise you to keep your own counsel.
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v. phr., formal To keep your ideas and plans to yourself. John listened to what everyone had to say in the discussion, but he kept his own counsel. Although everybody gave Mrs. O'Connor advice about what to do with her house, she kept her own counsel.counsel
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keep (one's) own counsel
To not allotment one's thoughts or affairs with others. I'm aloof artlessly a clandestine person, so I accumulate my own counsel.Learn more: counsel, keep, ownkeep one's own counsel
Fig. to accumulate one's thoughts and affairs to oneself; to abstain from added bodies one's thoughts and plans. Jane is actual quiet. She tends to accumulate her own counsel. I admonish you to accumulate your own counsel.Learn more: counsel, keep, own
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