blow off one's steam

English

Verb

blow off one's steam (third-person singular simple present blows off one's steam, present participle blowing off one's steam, simple past blew off one's steam, past participle blown off one's steam)

  1. (uncommon) Synonym of blow off steam.
    • 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
      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.
    • 2007, Jill Kargman, Momzillas, London […]: Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 198:
      When she left I was desperate to get out of the house and I decided to take Violet outside to blow off my steam.
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