pour out one's heart

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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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.

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To sing," rhapsodised the Griffin—"to be like one of those great singers out of the opera, to pour out one's heart tones, to be gazed at by every eye, to be listened to by every ear, to be the adored of all.

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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.

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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.

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"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."

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