What does the expression "heart on a sleave" mean?

Question:What does the expression " you have my heart on a sleave" mean?

Answers:
"wear your heart on your sleeve"

Means your heart is not protected. It's out there where others can bump, bruise, and sneeze on it. Open to heart-break.
It means your heart is right out there where you can be hurt easily, instead of protected.
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To "wear one's heart on one's sleeve" means to have no pretense, to have everything out in the open, and to hide nothing. What You See Is What You Get.

It has a secondary connotation of one who is without guile, and who adores openly, without shame.

The term comes from Vaudeville, and the costumes used:

The practice of pulling Handkerchiefs out of sleeves (wrist cuffs) to wipe eyes for effect predates Vaudeville, but was used to ridiculous effect in Vaudeville.

"BooHooHoo, the Heroine cried", and all that.

The phrase is a rather cynical one, as are most Vaudeville phrases (Pig Show, Dog and Pony, Brat Spank, TDTGO, etc.), but it has endured to this day to mean Honest.
A person who's feeling get hurt easily. They cry at the drop of a hat.
u get hurt easily

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