keep counsel

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keep counsel (third-person singular simple present keeps counsel, present participle keeping counsel, simple past and past participle kept counsel)

  1. (intransitive) To keep one's counsel.
    • 1981, A. D. Hope, “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell”, in A Book of Answers:
      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.