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2021-07-03 10:07
Keep (one's) own counsel verb phrase
This idiom means that someone does not share what they think or intend to do with others.
I want to know what my colleague thinks about the plan of the next campaign, but she keeps her own counsel again.
He is the type of person who talks less but acts more, so he always keeps his own counsel.
I don't know why Anna kept her own counsel and just listened to others in the meeting.
Someone who looks gentle and sweet but in fact is severe and forceful
Try to hide and deny something that is embarrassing, unappealing, or damaging to one's reputation
To deliberately hide one's true nature, intentions or purposes
1. If you hide away, you go somewhere so that no one can find you.
2. If you hide someone or something away, you put them in a place where people cannot find them.
The verb "keep" should be conjugated according to its tense.
Do you see anything wrong?
1. Doing something extremely well
2. Behaving in an extreme or remarkable manner
1. Holly was in rare form during her speech, so she got the first prize in the competition last night.
2. Corrine: I'm going to buy Christmas presents for everybody. Do you want to go with me?
Laura: Oh...My kids are in rare form today, so I cannot go with you. Sorry!
