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give oneself away



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Idioms and Phrases

see give away , def. 3.

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Example Sentences

He had given himself away to Stella as he had never in his wildest dreams supposed that one could give oneself away to a woman.

One has to be so frightfully careful not to give oneself away when one knows everything.

One must strive with one's whole strength to give oneself away.

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