keep one's counselとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

keep one's counsel (三人称単数 現在形 keeps one's counsel, 現在分詞 keeping one's counsel, 過去形および過去分詞形 kept one's counsel)

1. To keep one's own business private; to be careful, circumspect, or discreet in what one says concerning one's own deeds, situation, or thoughts.

   Synonyms: hold one's peace, keep one's cards close to one's chest, keep one's mouth shut, keep one's own counsel, keep counsel

   • 1848 November – 1850 December​, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Contains both Love and War”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, OCLC 2057953, page 56:

     As he held his mother to him, he longed to tell her all, but he kept his counsel.

   • 1982 July 26, “Personal Power, Personal Hate”, in Time‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, ISSN 0928-8430, OCLC 749127914, archived from the original on 8 April 2008:

     [Ruhollah] Khomeini's approach to decision making is to keep his counsel at first, allowing the advocates of different options to debate issues openly.

2. To keep a secret for someone else; to be careful, circumspect, or discreet in what one says concerning someone else's deeds, situation, or thoughts.

   Synonym: keep one's mouth shut

   • 1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XLIX, in Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 948783829, book V (The Dead Hand), page 105:

     Standish will keep our counsel, and the news will be old before it's known.