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blowing off steam
vb. (present participle of blow off steam English)
Usage examples of "blowing off steam".
Maybe Gray had just been blowing off steam, and hadnt meant what hed said.
Just blowing off steam like we always do before going into another big battle.
Then he carried it down a corridor and into a playroom where ahundred little mice were running around, blowing off steam.
Somewhere in the cacophonous gearbox of his brain, he heard the hiss of a petcock, blowing off steam.
Getting his hands and his uniform dirty was at least as good a way of blowing off steam as getting a snootful of whiskey—.
The celebration there was a lot noisier and a lot more honesteverybody was blowing off steam, filled with relief at having gotten through the all-important Winter Concert without absolute disaster.