Spanish term
United Kingdom
Diploma in Legal/Financial Translation
Native in: English (Variants: British, UK) 
Works in: Polish to English, Spanish to English
contarlo solo por contarlo
'He tenido que vivir con esto por mucho tiempo y es algo que me avergüenza y no podía contarlo solo por contarlo.'
Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
Proposed translations
...I couldn't just come out with.
United Kingdom
Flair and accuracy tailored to your text
Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
talk about just for the sake of it
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Carol Gullidge
: This seems closest to the ST (solo por contarlo) to me
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Thank you!
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philgoddard
: I agree it's closest to the source text, but I don't feel it's something we'd say in English.
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Yep, thanks.
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Italy
Technical trans. /negotiation interp.
Native in: Italian
Works in: Spanish to Italian, English to Italian, Italian to Spanish, and 3 more.
bing it out just for the sake of it
Will do!
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: European/Portugal)
Works in: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, German to Portuguese, and 1 more.
(I couldn't) just talk about it casually
United Kingdom
ITI/SUBTLE affiliate BRPTEN
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian) , English (Variant: British)
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese
bring myself to talk about it.
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/can-t...
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/bring myself to
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My suggestion is that they claim to be ashamed of talking about it, so I thought there was some hesitation involved which matches with the expression of not being able to bring the subject up.
United States
Six languages into flawless English
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English, Spanish to English, and 4 more.
find it easy to talk about
United States
Laudable Lady Linguist
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 3 more.
and I wasn't just able to get it out
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/get it out
Spain
BA, DipTransIoLET, bicultural translator
Native in: English (Variants: UK, British)
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish
just blurt it out
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I suppose the person needed to think before speaking about this, so it wasn't something he or she could just "blurt out" without a second thought
Spain
Golf, Literature and Religion Specialist
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, French to Spanish, Spanish
make small talk about it
I couldn't just bring it up in the conversation
I.e. deliberately introducing the topic
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