Wearing our feelings and emotions or anything else subtle on the sleeve is actually a variation from wearing our heart on the sleeve.
And it is the very William Shakespeare that coined the expression – in Othello (Act I, scene I):
Iago:
It is as 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.
All clear?
Great. Here are media examples of people who don’t keep their thoughts and feelings to themselves and, for better or worse, will wear them on their sleeve (sleeve, always singular, as if their thoughts and feelings are a badge or an arm band):
1. Serena Williams admits that having love in her life has been a key to her rousing success over an exhilarating 13 months in which she has won Olympic gold, two U.S. Open titles and a French Open.
Following a fitful night’s sleep after winning her fifth U.S. Open crown on Sunday in a three-set thriller over world number two Victoria Azarenka, Williams surprised a small group of reporters when asked about the power of love.
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