spilling guts
- confessingAdmitting to a fault
- secretsConcealed information
- truthAccordance with reality
- revealingMaking known what's hidden
- vomitingExpelling stomach contents orally
entrails · disemboweling · honesty · confession · bleeding · wounds · gore · talking · snitching · betrayal · emotions · unburdening · pouring · heart · intestines · slaughter · vulnerable · raw
- vulnerabilityvulnerability, vulnerable, defenselessness, defenseless, helplessness
disclosure vs. concealment
spilling gutskeeping mum
Staying deliberately silent
keeping secrets · holding back · clamming up · stonewalling · keeping quiet
emotional expression vs. emotional restraint
spilling gutsbottling up
Containing emotions internally
keeping it together · emotional repression · putting on a brave face · internalizing · suffering in silence
verbal abundance vs. verbal economy
spilling gutssaying nothing
biting one's tongue · measured speech · self-censoring · speaking in riddles