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Counsel

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Keep your own counsel. Donʹt talk about what you intend to do. Keep your plans to yourself.

“Now, mind what I tell you, and keep your own counsel.”—Boldrewood: Robbery Under Arms, chap. vi.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Cotton
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Cottonian Library
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Cotytto
Coucy
Couleur de Rose (French)
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Councils
Counsel
Count Kin with One (To)
Count not your Chickens
Count out the House (To)
Count Upon (To)
Countenance (To)
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Counterforts
Counter-jumper
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