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View synonyms for keep to oneself

keep to oneself

  1. Also, keep oneself to oneself . Shun the company of others, value one's privacy, as in She kept to herself all morning , or, as Doris Lessing put it in In Pursuit of the English (1960): “She keeps herself to herself so much.” [Late 1600s]

  2. Refrain from revealing, hold secret, as in He promised to keep the news to himself . Also see the synonym keep under one's hat .



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