wear your heart on your sleeve. to make your feelings and opinions obvious to other people John's always worn his heart on his sleeve, so there's no doubt who he'll be supporting. See also: heart, on, sleeve, wear. Related vocabulary: wear something on your sleeve.
In many bivalves and snails, and in cephalopods, part of the mantle is modified into a siphon, which can be used to pump water through the mantle cavity for respiration, feeding and/or jet propulsion. Freshwater and marine mollusks have gills (called ctenidia) for respiration, located in the mantle cavity. In most bivalves, these are enlarged and serve to trap food particles as well (Morton 1983).
Mussels breathe exclusively with gills. In different bivalve groups the gill construction can be so different, that the gill construction type is a major part of bivalve systematics. The gills not only serve for respiration, but also for feeding the mussel.