pour out one's heart

Idioms  

1. Express one's innermost thoughts and feelings to someone else, as in Upset over the breakup, she poured out her heart to her mother. Also see open one's heart.

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Example Sentences

You have no idea how awful it is to have no one to pour out one's heart to, no one to look to for sympathy.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

I gladly let myself go on such matters to you, for I know that we are of one mind regarding them, and it does one good to pour out one's heart a little for once.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Barrington, Mrs. Russell

"Lucy, you are a great comfort in a house; it is so nice to have some one to pour out one's heart to; my husband is no use at all."

From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Reade, Charles

To pour out one's heart, to live the life of one's country, and have but one to see it,—it is sad, it is tragic.

From Three Margarets by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)