get off one's chest

• take something off one's chest

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get off one's chest (third-person singular simple present gets off one's chest, present participle getting off one's chest, simple past got off one's chest, past participle (UK) got off one's chest or (US) gotten off one's chest)

1. (informal, idiomatic) To relieve oneself psychologically or emotionally by speaking to someone.
   • 2020, Ava Max, Sorana, Roland Spreckley, Henri Antero Salonen, Cirkut, Jason Gill, “OMG What's Happening”, in Heaven & Hell‎^[1], performed by Ava Max:

     I wanna tell you things and show you all the rest / Broadcast my emotions on the radio and take them off my chest / I hope you're listening / Are you? Are you?

• get the dirty water off one's chest
• make a clean breast
• out of one's system