Meaning of keep one's own counsel | Babel Free

Definitions

To keep one's own business private; to be discreet, careful, or circumspect in what one says concerning one's own thoughts, deeds, or situation.

Examples

“Near-synonyms: keep one's cards close to one's chest, keep it in the family, keep one's mouth shut; see also Thesaurus:be quiet”

“Who wills, may keep his own counsel—be his own secret's sovereign.”

“She kept her own counsel however, planning to escape at the first opportunity when she might have a sufficient start of her captor, as she now considered him, to give her some assurance of outdistancing him.”

“The compressed lips suggest his principled reticence, his practice of keeping his own counsel.”

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