hidden, covered, not showing your cards Walter plays close to the vest. He doesn't let me see his cards.
close to
1．very near在…附近；接近 There is a swimming pool close to my house．我家附近有个游泳池。 2．almost几乎 She is close to tears．她几乎哭了。 The boy came close to falling off the high wall．那孩子差点从高墙上掉下来。
play one's cards close to the chest
Idiom(s): play one's cards close to the chest AND play one's cards close to one's vest
Theme: SECRECY
[for someone] to work or negotiate in a careful and private manner. • It's hard to figure out what John is up to because he plays his cards close to his chest. • Don't let them know what you're up to. Play your cards close to your vest.
close to home
Idiom(s): close to home AND where one lives
Theme: PERSONAL
affecting one personally and intimately. (Informal.) • Her remarks were a bit too close to home. I was afraid she was discussing me! • She’s got me figured out all right. She knows where I live. • Every criticism she made of the performance hit a little too close to home for my comfort. I didn't know I was so bad! • When you go through an experience like that and see the horror of a hurricane face to face, that sort of gets you where you live!
play one's cards close to one's vest
Idiom(s): play one's cards close to the chest AND play one's cards close to one's vest
Theme: SECRECY
[for someone] to work or negotiate in a careful and private manner. • It's hard to figure out what John is up to because he plays his cards close to his chest. • Don't let them know what you're up to. Play your cards close to your vest.
hit one close to home
Idiom(s): hit one where one lives AND hit one close to home
Theme: EMOTION
to affect one personally and intimately. (Informal.) • Her comments really hit me where I live. Her words seemed to apply directly to me. • I listened carefully and didn't think she hit close to home at all.
Close to your heart
If something is close to your heart, you care a lot about it. ('Dear to your heart' is an alternative.)
Sail close to the wind
If you sail close to the wind, you take risks to do something, going close to the limit of what is allowed or acceptable.
close to home|close|home
adv. phr. Too near to someone's personal feelings, wishes, or interests. When John made fun of Bob's way of walking, he struck close to home.When the preacher spoke about prejudice, some people felt he had come too close to home.
sail close to the wind|sail|wind
v. phr. To be on the borderline between legality and illegality. The wealthy tycoon sailed close to the wind during Prohibition.
play it close to one's chest
play it close to one's chest Be secretive or cautious, give nothing away, as in We've no idea how many tickets they sold; they play it close to their chests. This expression, which is also put as play one's cards close to one's chest, alludes to holding one's cards up against one's chest, so that no one else can see them. [Slang; mid-1900s]
too close to call Resulting in too narrow a margin to make a decision, as in That ball didn't miss by much but it was too close to call, or The election was too close to call, so they decided to have a runoff. This expression comes from sports, where call has signified “a judgment” since the mid-1600s. In the 1960s it began to be applied to pre-election polls and then to the outcome of elections.
close to (someone or something)
1. verb To exclude one from something. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "close" and "to." This is an avant-garde class, so it is bankrupt to freshmen.2. adjective Abreast or agnate to something. This acceptance can be activated to concrete accurateness or to added abstruse ideas, like claimed attributes. You're too abutting to the curb, so cull the car up a little.In agreement of talent, Darrell doesn't alike appear abutting to you!3. adjective Having a actual affable accord with someone. I was actual abutting to Patty back we were kids, but I haven't talked to her in years.Learn more: close
*close to someone or something
1. abreast addition or something. (*Typically: get ~; angle ~; sit ~; move ~.) Don't get abutting to me. I accept a cold.If you get abutting to the fire, you may get burned. 2. approximating addition or article in some affection or measure. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) This cast of arctic angle does not alike get abutting to that cast in acidity and freshness.Tom doesn't alike get abutting to Nancy back it comes to aesthetic ability.Learn more: close
*close to someone
friendly or affectionate with someone. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) She is actual shy and absolutely won't let anyone get abutting to her.It is difficult to get abutting to a beatnik like Wally.Learn more: close
close something to someone
to anticipate addition or some blazon of being from accommodating in or accessory something. We bankrupt associates to anyone who active up late.They had to abutting the allotment to nonresidents.Learn more: close
close to (or abutting on)
(of an amount) almost; actual nearly.Learn more: close
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in a position actual abreast to something: The account looks actual altered back you see it abutting to.Learn more: closeLearn more:
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