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Idioms and Phrases
Complain publicly, as in Jane was afraid to complain at work but freely aired her grievances at home . This figurative exposure to the open air is far from new; to air one's opinions or ideas dates from the early 1800s, and the precise idiom appears in James Joyce's Ulysses (1922).Advertisement
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