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vapour

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energy

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get steamed up

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get worked up
get angry
go mad
go crazy
see red
go ballistic
blow a fuse
get uptight
go off the deep end
get flustered
go up the wall
blow your top
lose your rag
go crook
get in a stew
get overwrought
flip your lid
hit or go through the roof

let off steam: use up energy

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use up energy
let yourself go
release surplus energy

let off steam: speak your mind

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speak your mind
sound off
give vent to your feelings

under your own steam

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without help
independently
on your own
by yourself
unaided
by your own efforts

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capacity or power for work or vigorous activity

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to be or become angry

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water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere

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travel by means of steam power

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steamer

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emit steam

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rise as vapor

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get very angry

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clean by means of steaming

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steam clean

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cook something by letting steam pass over it

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A source said the prince, an Army officer and Apache helicopter pilot, was just "letting off steam" before the next important phase of his military career.

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Later the girls took on the dance floor with some other revellers, boogieing the night away letting off steam at the end of a weekend tennis tournament.

Venus Williams courts attention onstage at karaoke bar

What about lobbing Molotov cocktails, surely just children letting off steam? So what about the killing of the policeman by setting fire to his vehicle, and other things we hear about connected to the incident?

Having a laugh?

Summary: Our petulant president's ego can't handle a General letting off steam. Neither can any of the spoiled children who comprise A"ourA" government in DC, the capital of the A"superpower.A" Generals have to fight wars that civilians start, either from the incompetence of their diplomacy or the arrogance of their hubris.

Is Petraeus the next president?

I am sorry to be letting off steam in your newspaper, but just felt that the person who organised for this sign to be put up in the first place might just be a Daily Post reader like us.

Not our greetings; LETTERS to the EDITOR

They're letting off steam after their exam results, which reveal Zak has passed - he's thrilled as he doesn't have to join the army - but Zoe has failed.

hollyoaks; this week

The alternative is possible demagoguery, bias and letting off steam - things which I see a good deal of in the mid-market tabloids like the Daily Mail and the Daily Express.

Letter: Viewpoints - Give the accused the benefit of the doubt

LETTING OFF STEAM: The age of steam returned to the roads in June 1984 when a fleet of ancient lorries, buses and vans set off on a 40-mile trundle from the Tees to the Tyne.

Remember When...1984

Defence bosses have dismissed footage of British soldiers apparently playing "chicken" with a low flying Harrier jump jet as servicemen "letting off steam".

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