Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve
You use the phrase ‘Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve’ to indicate that someone is displaying emotion openly.
Example of use: “I can tell Jenny is upset; she wears her heart on her sleeve.”
Interesting fact about Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve
The term ‘wear your heart on your sleeve’ derives from a middle age custom in which jousting knights wore the colors of the ladies they were supporting on their sleeves. The expression is first recorded in Shakespeare’s Othello in 1604 as Iago attempts to appear faithful: 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.
