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give oneself away

Idioms  
  1. see give away, def. 3.


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

From The Light Shines in Darkness by Maude, Aylmer

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

From A Young Girl's Diary by Paul, Eden

His friend was not a person to give oneself away to. 

From Within the Tides by Conrad, Joseph

It seems that the Polish characteristic is to lend oneself, but never to give oneself away, and one of Chopin's friends said of him that he was "more Polish than Poland itself."

From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Hallard, Alys

It is heaven on earth to love and to give oneself away.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander

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