keep counsel

verb

keep counsel

verb

1

To keep one's counsel.

A lady, sir, as you will find, / Keeps counsel, or she speaks her mind, / Means what she says and scorns to fence / And palter with feigned innocence.1981, A. D. Hope, “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell”, in A Book of Answers:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.