| 词汇 | vent one-s spleen |
| 词源 | vent one’s spleen. When a person vents his or her spleen, he is feeling low or acting spitefully. The expression is first record- ed in 1641 and derives from the ancient belief that the human gland called the spleen caused low spirits or melancholy. |
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