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Antonyms for get off chest
| Grammar : Adj, verb |
| Spell : chest |
| Phonetic Transcription : tʃɛst |
Definition of get off chest
Origin :- Old English cest "box, coffer, casket," from Proto-Germanic *kista (cf. Old Norse and Old High German kista, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, German kiste, Dutch kist), an early borrowing from Latin cista "chest, box," from Greek kiste "a box, basket," from PIE *kista "woven container." Meaning extended to "thorax" 1520s, replacing breast (n.), on the metaphor of the ribs as a box for the organs. Chest of drawers is from 1590s.
- As in unburden : adj get rid of
- As in profess : verb declare, assert
- As in relate : verb give an account of
- As in acknowledge : verb admit truth or reality of something
Synonyms for get off chest
- accede
- accept
- acknowledge
- acquiesce
- act as if
- admit
- affirm
- allege
- allow
- announce
- asseverate
- aver
- avouch
- avow
- blow hot air
- break a story
- certify
- chronicle
- claim
- clear
- clue one in
- come clean
- come out
- come out of closet
- concede
- confess
- confide
- confirm
- constate
- cop a plea
- crack
- croon
- cross heart
- declare
- depict
- depose
- describe
- detail
- disburden
- discharge
- disclose
- disencumber
- dispose of
- dissemble
- divulge
- dump
- ease
- empty
- express
- fake
- feign
- fess up
- get off chest
- get off one's chest
- get on soapbox
- give the word
- grant
- impart
- itemize
- lay bare
- lay it on the line
- let hair down
- let on
- let one's hair down
- lighten
- lose
- maintain
- make out
- narrate
- open up
- out with it
- own
- own up
- particularize
- picture
- predicate
- present
- pretend
- proclaim
- profess
- purport
- recite
- recognize
- recount
- rehearse
- relieve
- relinquish
- report
- retell
- reveal
- run down
- run through
- say so
- set forth
- shake
- shake off
- shoot the breeze
- sing
- sling
- soapbox
- spiel
- spill
- spill the beans
- spin a yarn
- spout
- state
- stump
- swear on bible
- swear up and down
- talk big
- tell
- tell all
- throw off
- track
- unbosom
- unload
- verbalize
- vouch
- yield
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