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I Wear My Heart On My Sleeve

The Origin Of This Saying - I Wear My Heart On My Sleeve...... Wear your heart on your sleeve
Meaning: Display one's emotions openly.

Origin: This phrase may derive from the custom at middle ages jousting matches. Knights are said to have worn the colours of the lady they were supporting, in cloths or ribbons tied to their arms.

The term doesn't date from that period though and is first recorded in Shakespeare's Othello, 1604. In the play, the treacherous Iago's plan was to feign openness and vulnerability in order to appear faithful:

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 compliment 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.
dreamcatcher60foru
ahh .......yes but you see the winged hands for protection ??? such a thought..though the others are only but a flock of sheep ...but Iago..like me a wolf...in the end still exposed and vulnerable..still wears has a heart....the winged hands will protect it.. xxx :)
silly me got carried away...lol
MarkLovesCoffee · 56-60, M
By all means .... Carry on .... Could sit and read that forever ... Ty xxxx

 
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