blow off steam

吹气泄气吐气吐气如兰

blow off steam 的定义

  1. Also, let off steam. Air or relieve one's pent-up feelings by loud talk or vigorous activity. For example, Joan's shouting did not mean she was angry at you; she was just blowing off steam, or After spending the day on very exacting work, Tom blew off steam by going for a long run. This metaphoric term refers to easing the pressure in a steam engine. [Early 1800s]

blow off steam 近义词

blow off steam

等同于 roister

blow off steam

等同于 revel

blow off steam

等同于 celebrate

更多blow off steam例句

  1. This is a blow against freedom of speech, we were told, by the likes of Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson.
  2. Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
  3. A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
  4. Liberal Democrats like to blow their bugles about how all the big money in politics comes from rich Republicans.
  5. On Friday, the story had looked like it might blow over as Buckingham Palace sought to dismiss it as a “civil case.”
  6. It was like his beautiful courtesy to call me in and introduce me to Blow instead of letting me go away.
  7. A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
  8. A colossal steam "traveller" had ceaselessly carried great blocks of stone and long steel girders from point to point.
  9. Two huge steam engines had snorted and puffed for three whole years.
  10. Greenlaw (Charles P.), his efforts in obtaining steam for India, 560.