blow off steam

“Oh, I doubt I’m cured! Next full moon will tell. But I learned something important, thanks to my little instructor over there. The truth is, I don’t mind the howling. It’s nice to blow off steam, so to speak. And I’m used to it, too. I might even miss it if it stopped.”

He said writing in this book could be my way to blow off steam.

When I need to blow off steam, I like to go for a bike ride.

In 2008, a group of scantily clad Chapman University students frolicked in the water fixture during the college’s biannual Undie Run, a tradition where students strip off their clothes and run through downtown to blow off steam during finals week.

Though Santi likes to hit, perhaps just to blow off steam, he has become alienated from the game and resistant to advice — for reasons we will learn, besides the usual teenage anomie.