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Pinned Up or Pent Up
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Pinned Up or Pent Up :
If you wear your heart on your sleeve I suppose you might be said to have “pinned up” emotions; but the phrase you want when you are suppressing your feelings is “pent-up emotions.”
Similarly, it’s pent-up demand.”
“Pent” is a rare word; but don’t replace it with “penned” in such phrases either.
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