off one's chest, get

Relieve one's mind by confessing or saying something that has been repressed. For example, I've got to get this off my chest-I can't stand his parents, or He admitted taking the dollar and said he was glad to get it off his chest. This expression uses chest for the seat of the emotions. [c. 1900]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Nicola	['nikələ]
Melanija	-	Serbian, Macedonian, Slovene, Latvian, Lithuanian
Sonja	ZAWN-yah (German), SON-yah (Finnish)	German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonia
Vergil	VUR-jəl	English
Jessamyn	JES-ə-min	English (Rare)
Nathanahel	-	Biblical Latin