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Difference between Keep to oneself and Retire into oneself

keep to oneself —(also: keep oneself to oneself ) remain unsociable; avoid meeting other people:

  • He’d kept to himself on that trip, not really making eye contact or talking to the locals.

retire into oneselfbecome quiet and unwilling to talk:

  • When she saw that complaints did not alter me, she retired into herself, as it were; and I saw less and less of her.