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Wear , river, c.65 mi (100 km) long, rising in the Pennines in County Durham, NE England, and flowing to the North Sea at Sunderland. Navigable for barges to Durham city, the river waters a rich agricultural area. The lower Wear passes through an industrial region.

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Â© The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 2006, originally published by Oxford University Press 2006. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

wear wear one's heart on one's sleeve make one's feelings apparent; perhaps originally with reference to Shakespeare's Othello, ‘For I will wear my heart upon my sleeve, For daws to peck at’.

See also better to wear out than to rust out, if the cap fits, wear it, if the shoe fits, wear it, wear the willow.

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wear 1 v. past wore; past part. worn (of a ship) fly (a flag).

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