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Antonyms for get off one's chest
| Grammar : Adj, verb |
| Spell : chest |
| Phonetic Transcription : tʃɛst |
Definition of get off one's 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 relate : verb give an account of
Synonyms for get off one's chest
- break a story
- chronicle
- clear
- clue one in
- confess
- confide
- depict
- describe
- detail
- disburden
- discharge
- disclose
- disencumber
- dispose of
- divulge
- dump
- ease
- empty
- express
- get off one's chest
- give the word
- impart
- itemize
- lay bare
- lay it on the line
- let hair down
- let one's hair down
- lighten
- lose
- narrate
- out with it
- own
- particularize
- picture
- present
- recite
- recount
- rehearse
- relieve
- relinquish
- report
- retell
- reveal
- run down
- run through
- set forth
- shake
- shake off
- shoot the breeze
- sling
- spill
- spill the beans
- spin a yarn
- state
- tell
- tell all
- throw off
- track
- unbosom
- unload
- verbalize
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