safety valve

As a safety valve, to keep them from getting out of control.

You were the safety valve, in case I needed to bring the whole thing down.

One way to think of it is as a safety valve.

"The bottom line is that people want a safety valve."

"Part of our responsibility is to be a safety valve for people who have not been heard from."

"Just the fact that it's there is an important safety valve."

If anything, the question is whether it provides enough of a "political safety valve."

But, he added, there is no insurance that the safety valve works.

We all need safety valves for our emotions, women in particular.

"Maybe I was a safety valve or something, someone for them to fall back on.

"Do you think that will act like a safety valve, and hold back some of the flood?"

It's the safety valve of our family, such eccentric behavior.

On the same level with that, I would put our role as a safety valve."

"Films were a safety valve for the system," the director said.

But when one safety valve faltered, the rest gave out as well.

Her own, private safety valve from the emotional pressures within.

How had the water gotten hot enough to blow the safety valve?

In addition, national standards are set for many kinds of safety valves.

We'll still use political will, but I want to have this as a safety valve."

That sounds as if you were getting up a head of steam- The safety valve!

No doubt, in his frustration against the forces of nature, he was using me only as a safety valve.

He later said, "That was kind of a safety valve.

He used correspondence as a safety valve, and for imaginary company.

It is a safety valve, you might say a brothel of the mind.

For many years the public domain had been regarded as the safety valve of the American political and economic order.