Let off steam: v.tr. (word coming from release).
The verb “to let off steam” has several meanings:
1. Things: Allow, encourage in (someone) the release of aggressiveness, of ordinarily repressed impulses.
2. People: let off steam (pronominal verb): Free yourself from constraints, tensions (decompensate); expend vital energy.
Let off steam while doing sports.
To vent about something, someone.
Opposite of letting off steam: to constrain (oneself)....
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