let off steam BrE
blow off steam AmE

To let off steam, they used to call each other up.

Sport was a way to let off steam for her.

There was no way for any of the inmates to let off steam.

Sometimes it was just a winter ritual to let off steam.

Yet isn't that the way a lot of families let off steam?

Because everyone said that children in Manhattan need to let off steam and have fun for a change.

Such statements may simply be a matter of letting off steam.

Not far away there was a sound as though an engine were letting off steam.

Yes, they play rough sometimes, and come here to let off steam or be silly at others.

"And as you probably know better than anyone else on board, dreams are just a way of letting off steam."

That would allow dissidents of right and left to let off steam.

"Instead, they may retreat to their informal groups to let off steam."

If you want to let off steam, go running.

"I see guys letting off steam in other ways," he said.

"You have got to relieve the pressure and let off steam at the right time," said Johnson.

He said, kids will be kids and need to let off steam.

The corruption of the regime also helps let off steam.

The players obviously revel in being able to let off steam.

The two officers were letting off steam, not really arguing.

The outburst had been just his way of letting off steam.

Many parents are looking for a place where children can let off steam without wrecking homes.

To the Guys, for giving me a chance to let off steam without inhibition.

The workers were just letting off steam, kidding themselves that it could all keep going.

Walton wanted to break things, to cry, to let off steam somehow.

They were very inviting, these small square panels, if you wanted to let off steam.

Let the others have a chance to blow off steam.

And he had needed to blow off steam for a long time.

I've got a company to run, and people come here to blow off steam.

When college boys turn over a police car, they're blowing off steam.

But this was the first time I had gotten to blow off steam.

I'm going to head to a cancer center to blow off steam, I realized.

But office leagues are no longer just a way to blow off steam.

"But sooner or later she would have blown off steam with me."

All this nonsense is a kind of blowing off steam.

Many people gossip just for fun or to blow off steam.

"It blows off steam, and we all need that right now."

She wasn't just blowing off steam, and the issue was not going away.

This is a way for kids to blow off steam."

"I blew off steam for the whole week," she said.

"They are just blowing off steam," he said of the pharmaceutical society.

"It's a place to find common ground and to blow off steam.

A gym is not merely a place to blow off steam.

The ship blew off steam and went down by the stern.

But instead, he put on his hat that night, walked into the town meeting, and blew off steam in public.

But once a week I think it's perfectly healthy to blow off steam.

If your partner is just blowing off steam, it's sometimes a good idea to say nothing and let him or her cool down.

Then he paused and waited for them to blow off steam.

That allows them to see whether they really have any support for their positions and to blow off steam.

Since then it's been a high for her, a spiritual release, a way to blow off steam.

The boyfriend is then seen driving, blowing off steam from the fight.