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out of one's system
Idioms and Phrases
Out of one's thoughts or inclinations. It is often put as get something out of one's system , as in You need to get your ex-husband out of your system , or At the annual all-chocolate buffet I try everything, which gets it out of my system for at least a month , or Let him complain as much as he wants so he'll get it out of his system . This idiom uses system in the sense of 鈥渁ll one's physical and mental functions.鈥 [c. 1900]Example Sentences
Other than that, one could make a pilgrimage to Utah鈥檚 renowned Bonneville Salt Flats or find a local drag strip for hire to get the demons out of one鈥檚 system, so to speak, but out on the open road it鈥檚 another story.
Freud hypothesized that throwing up can be a symbolic act, an outward expression of the impulse to get a noxious thought out of one鈥檚 system.
"Leaving Vietnam behind did not mean getting it out of one's system," he said.
Some things one gets out of one鈥檚 system, And other things in.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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