escape valve


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Synonyms for escape valve

a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler)

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'That it came after the impeachment complaint has been dismissed by the House of Representatives stripped the resignation as an escape valve viz-a-viz the complaint filed against him,' he added.
I'd just been playing, glad to have an escape valve from the oppressive world of Tony, the guy I was living with, who was also the director of the group.
As a result informal work serves as an "escape valve" for Bolivia's surplus labor pool, informality serves as a way for the state to generate revenue from confiscations and bribes, and it allows the state to minimize its investment in both markets and workers.
"Combined with the lower rents and available economic incentives, Long Island City has become an escape valve for tenants seeking cool space without paying the premium of being in Manhattan," said Grotto .
If head-long technological and economic dislocation made political conflict unavoidable, humanity needed a way to contain it, civilise it - a way to hang on to timeless standards of humanity while providing an escape valve for argument and change.
"To be honest, I think football and a club like this are a good escape valve for everyone."
Still, the broad picture of slower output this year is matched by a mild contraction of the country's aluminium escape valve.
Well, that and a pervasive sense of humor that infuses the book's heavier moments with a necessary escape valve (critics mention a spiritual connection with Chuck Klosterman's work; John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces comes to mind as well).
Social media has become an escape valve for the gamut of emotions that rise like steam from irate passengers on delayed local and international flights, with cargo as well as people trapped in traffic congestion from seaports to roads ironically described as expressways.
Meanwhile, Fletcher says Sunderland's win at Palace has provided an escape valve for any pressure that was building on the Black Cats.
It had a large and noisy motor that included an escape valve for steam so her head would not cook.
Some so-called "assurances" may be given by Pfizer as a political escape valve for the government.