keep one's cards close to one's chest

keep one's cards close to one's chest
To avoid revealing ones thoughts, circumstances, or plans.

Balthus has always kept his cards close to his chest. When I asked him if Summertime was a transcription of Poussins Echo and Narcissus—a variant of his lost copy—he did not reply.


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