get the dirty water off one's chest

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get the dirty water off one's chest (third-person singular simple present gets the dirty water off one's chest, present participle getting the dirty water off one's chest, simple past and past participle got the dirty water off one's chest)

1. (UK, idiomatic, slang) To get sexual satisfaction, especially after a period of abstinence.
   • 1971, Fred Basnett, Country Matters:

     'You've got to get the dirty water off your chest some time.'

   • 1993, Westerly:

     Why not, I wonder, on my way, / Bored stiff and womanless for months, / To swim among and perv upon / The inaccessible Greek girls / And topless tourists round the bay, / Have random, casual sex and get / The dirty water off my chest?

   • 2000 January 25, Baz, “Any birds want a good seeing to?”, in uk.local.birmingham‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I'm in serious need of some ugandan activities. Any of you birds out there at a loose end and want to get the dirty water off your chest?

Synonyms

• get one's freak on, get some, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate