give oneself away
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His friend was not a person to give oneself away to.
From Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad
One has to be so frightfully careful not to give oneself away when one knows everything.
From A Young Girl's Diary by Eden Paul
It is heaven on earth to love and to give oneself away.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Alexander Maclaren
To accept their laws as binding on one's own conscience was, using the common expression, to give oneself away, to confess oneself commonplace.
From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
It cannot matter so very much, therefore, even if one do give oneself away; for what could not the purple mantle of triumph conceal?
From Thoughts out of Season Part I by Anthony M. (Anthony Mario) Ludovici
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