betray nothing
idiom
: to fail show anything about what one is feeling or thinking
The expression on his face betrayed nothing.
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Such letters were heavily censored and betray nothing of Peter’s situation or of any danger.
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Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
For a while, as in that scene in The Namesake, his demeanour seemed to betray nothing untoward.
—Hazlitt, 28 Apr. 2022
Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
For a while, as in that scene in The Namesake, his demeanour seemed to betray nothing untoward.
—Hazlitt, 28 Apr. 2022
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“Betray nothing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/betray%20nothing. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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