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JC wrote:
>
> Someone asked me last night for the meaning of "Don't wear your heart
> on your sleeve" and I didn't really know the meaning.
> So I am sure some of you do.

Don't display your emotions too openly.

Not sure about that one, I would suggest (being a person who has been
burnt), don't be naive and don't make it too easy  for people to affect you.


"JC" <extremebaud@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Someone asked me last night for the meaning of "Don't wear your heart
> on your sleeve" and I didn't really know the meaning.
> So I am sure some of you do.
>

In article <lslf4ukdua23ctfm92m12s9kkiojpgcel5@4ax.com>, JC
<extremebaud@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Someone asked me last night for the meaning of "Don't wear your heart
> on your sleeve" and I didn't really know the meaning.
> So I am sure some of you do.
>

It means "don't let people know your innermost thoughts".

Miche

--
Reading the Bible does not turn somebody into a good person.
Reading Harry Potter does not turn somebody into a wizard.
Living in a garage does not turn somebody into a car.
  -- Peter Eng

In article <lslf4ukdua23ctfm92m12s9kkiojpgcel5@4ax.com>, JC
<extremebaud@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Someone asked me last night for the meaning of "Don't wear your heart
> on your sleeve" and I didn't really know the meaning.
> So I am sure some of you do.

Learn to use google.com:

IAGO:
It is sure as you are Roderigo,
Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago.
In following him, I follow but myself;
Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,
But seeming so, for my peculiar end;
For when my outward action doth demonstrate
The native act and figure of my heart
In complement extern, 'tis not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve.
For daws to peck at. I am not what I am.
Othello, Act 1, scene 1, 56-65

..when your heart is displayed so openly, as if upon your sleeve, the
'daws' (jackdaws) will accept the invitation to pick away at it. By
admitting to his treachery, Iago would seem, in effect, to 'wear his
heart on his sleeve' for Roderigo. Yet, while Iago tells the truth, he
doesn't tell all of it, and keeps hidden his true 'native act and
figure' - his intention to dupe Roderigo out of even more jewels and
cash.

"Bruce Hoult" <bruce@hoult.org> wrote in message
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> In article <lslf4ukdua23ctfm92m12s9kkiojpgcel5@4ax.com>, JC
> <extremebaud@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Someone asked me last night for the meaning of "Don't wear your heart
> > on your sleeve" and I didn't really know the meaning.
> > So I am sure some of you do.
>
> Learn to use google.com:
>
> IAGO:
> It is sure as you are Roderigo,
> Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago.
> In following him, I follow but myself;
> Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,
> But seeming so, for my peculiar end;
> For when my outward action doth demonstrate
> The native act and figure of my heart
> In complement extern, 'tis not long after
> But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve.
> For daws to peck at. I am not what I am.
> Othello, Act 1, scene 1, 56-65
>
> ...when your heart is displayed so openly, as if upon your sleeve, the
> 'daws' (jackdaws) will accept the invitation to pick away at it. By
> admitting to his treachery, Iago would seem, in effect, to 'wear his
> heart on his sleeve' for Roderigo. Yet, while Iago tells the truth, he
> doesn't tell all of it, and keeps hidden his true 'native act and
> figure' - his intention to dupe Roderigo out of even more jewels and
> cash.

No, it's simpler than that.  He says he follows Othello, not out of love &
duty, but for his own purposes - while pretending loyalty.  He says that
when the time comes that he acts so as to show his feelings, not long after
that, he will wear his heart on his sleeve for the jackdaws to peck at it.
The duplicity he describes is in his relations with Othello, not Roderigo.