blow off one's steam

present singular third person blows off one's steam · participle present blowing off one's steam · past blew off one's steam · participle past blown off one's steam

1. uncommonSynonym of blow off steam.

   When she left I was desperate to get out of the house and I decided to take Violet outside to blow off my steam.

   2007, Jill Kargman, Momzillas, London […]: Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 198

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   During this hour or hour and a half he used to take his fling, going round to the studies of all his acquaintance, sparring or gossiping in the hall, now jumping the old iron-bound tables, or carving a bit of his name on them, then joining in some chorus of merry voices — in fact, blowing off his steam, as we should now call it.

   1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days

   Synonyms: blow off steam