out of one's system
English
Prepositional phrase
- (of an emotional state, often with get) Eliminated from one's disposition, mindset, or concerns.
- Regular exercise might help you to get the anger out of your system.
- 2022 November 27, Mike White, “That's Amore”, in Mike White, director, The White Lotus, season 2, episode 5, spoken by Daphne Sullivan (Meghann Fahy), via HBO:
- I feel like you sow your oats when you're young, and then you just, you know, you get it out of your system.
- (literal) Physically eliminated from the body.
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