(it's) a load off one's mind
1a load off one's mind — Relief from anxiety • • • Main Entry: ↑load …
2take a load off one's mind — If something takes a load (or weight) off someone s mind, it brings great relief because a problem has been solved. When the company closed down, finding a new job took a load off Tom s mind …
3get a load off one’s mind — tv. to say what one is thinking; to speak one’s mind; to talk something out. □ I’m sorry, but I just had to get a load off my mind. □ I think you’ll feel better after you get a load off your mind …
4take a load off one's mind — rid oneself of worry, ease one s concern …
5get off one's chest — informal I ve known what really happened for years, and I d like to finally get it off my chest Syn: confess, disclose, divulge, reveal, make known, make public, make a clean breast of, bring into the open, tell all about, get a load off one s… …
6get something off one's chest — (informal) CONFESS, disclose, divulge, reveal, make known, make public, make a clean breast of, bring into the open, tell all about, get a load off one s mind. → chest * * * informal say something that one has wanted to say for a long time,… …
7load — [lōd] n. [ME lode < OE lad, a course, way, journey < Gmc * laidō, way < IE base * leit(h) , to go, leave > LEAD1, ON litha, Goth galeithan, to go: sense infl. by ME laden, LADE] 1. something carried or to be carried at one time or in… …
8load — {{11}}load (n.) that which is laid upon a person or beast, burden, c.1200, from O.E. lad way, course, carrying, from P.Gmc. *laitho (Cf. O.H.G. leita, Ger. leite, O.N. leið way, course ); related to O.E. lædan to guide, from PIE *leit to go forth …
9mind — mind1 W1S1 [maınd] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(ability to think and imagine)¦ 2 change your mind 3 make up your mind/make your mind up 4 have somebody/something in mind (for something) 5 bear/keep somebody/something in mind 6 with somebody/something in mind 7… …
10mind — 1 /maInd/ noun BRAIN/THINKING PROCESS 1 (C, U) the part of a person, usually considered to be their brain, that they use to think and imagine things: I have a picture of him in my mind tall, blond and handsome. | I don t know what s going on in… …