let off steam

1. see blow off steam.

Example Sentences

"I would say that this is an attempt to give young people a valve to let off steam - so that they can at least have the illusion of a quick trip abroad," he says.

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In between the stops and restarts, they both wittily let off steam about the absurdity of the process.

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She realized she needed to let off steam in a way she rarely does.

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There were corrugated aluminum chutes down the mountainside to channel water, and I joked that they were water slides for predators to let off steam between kills.

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A tightly constrained opposition and occasional street protests were long seen as an important pressure valve for the Kremlin, through which its frustrated subjects could let off steam.

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