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show your hand

to tell people your plans or ideas, especially if you were keeping them secret before. I'm a bit reluctant to show my hand at this stage in the proceedings.

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I never yet harboured with one who could not show hand and zeal for the land which fed him. The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context More results

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