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bare one's breast (third-person singular simple present bares one's breast, present participle baring one's breast, simple past and past participle bared one's breast)
- To make oneself vulnerable.
- Synonyms: bare one's soul, pour one's heart out
- Near-synonym: wear one's heart on one's sleeve
1869, Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad:[…] he bared his breast to whizzing javelins, to hissing arrows, to any and every weapon that promised death and forgetfulness, and rest.
- 1854-55, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Chapter 59
- I'm going to be angry with you. Pitch into old Frank Henchman—hit away, my young one.' And Frank put himself into an attitude as of one prepared to receive a pugilistic assault. He bared his breast, as it were, and showed his scars, and said, "Strike!"'
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bare, breast.