wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve

(verb) to make your feelings easy to understand, to be vulnerable

Example Sentences:

Sally’s nervous boyfriend wore his heart on his sleeve when he asked Sally to marry him.

A: I think we should end our relationship.
B: Why?
A: I just think we’d be better with other people.
B: But I love you.
A: Look, I’m wearing my heart on my sleeve here, but I’m in love with your brother instead!
B: Oh.

If you wear your heart on your sleeve, it is easy to have your feelings hurt.

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Similar idioms:

1. wear someone out
2. wear someone out
3. have one’s heart in one’s mouth
4. no hard feelings
5. heart to heart
6. raise eyebrows
7. heart goes out to someone
8. know something by heart
9. handle
10. learn something by heart
11. heart is not in something
12. change of heart