单词 | keep to oneself |
释义 | keep to oneselfSEE SYNONYMS FOR keep to oneself ON THESAURUS.COM 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] Refrain from revealing, hold secret, as in He promised to keep the news to himself. Also see the synonym keep under one's hat. Words nearby keep to oneselfkeep the peace, keep the wolf from one's door, keep the wolf from the door, keep time, keep to, keep to oneself, keep track, keep under, keep under one's hat, keep under wraps, keep up The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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