| 单词 | to consume one's own smoke | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto consume one's own smoke    to consume one's own smoke and variants: to keep one's problems or complaints to oneself; to keep one's own counsel. ΚΠ 1829    Foreign Q. 4 277  				We cannot keep all our grumbling, our agitation, and fanaticism to ourselves—..in a political view we cannot comply with the act of parliament which enjoins us to consume our own smoke. 1883    Fort Wayne 		(Indiana)	 Sunday Gaz. 21 Jan. 3/2  				Are..[American women] careful to consume their own smoke, and to bring only an amiable face to the dinner table? 1915    V. Woolf Voy. Out xv. 235  				All I can do is to sit still and consume as much of my own smoke as possible. 1960    L. P. Hartley Facial Justice xix. 165  				Oh, that she had someone to confide in! She was tired of consuming her own smoke. 1998    P. Blum Surviving & Succeeding in Difficult Classrooms ix. 81  				You must consume as much of your own smoke as you can. Don't try to funnel it all off on your direct line manager. < as lemmas  | 
	
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