pour one's heart out

present singular third person pours one's heart out · participle present pouring one's heart out · participle past poured one's heart out · past poured one's heart out

1. idiomaticintransitiveTo express one's innermost thoughts or feelings effusively.

   And I just can't pour my heart out, to another living thing, I'm a whisper, I'm a shadow, but I'm standing up to sing.

   1994, Rolling Stones, Out of Tears

   3 more examples

   He poured his heart out to them, so as he never could in any other company, where he hath generally passed for being moody, or supercilious and silent.

   1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 29, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.

   [S]he would be all the better for pouring her heart out freely, and would be glad to do it, if she were sure of sympathy

   1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The Marble Faun

   The spirited lyrics, the dancing and the joy of watching these five handsome, clean-cut youngsters pouring their hearts out moved me then and moves me now.

   2009 July 2, “Our Favorite Songs: General Colin Powell”, in Time