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Wearing your heart on your sleeve

Posted by Roses on July 14, 2009 at 20:30

This site lists the origin of "wearing your heart on your sleeve" as William Shakespeare, but I've read elsewhere that it was a custom to write the name of your true love on the inside of your cuff and roll them up at Valentine's to gauge the reaction. Anyone heard that or similar?

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