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stress out	To inflict stress on.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stress out	To become stressed	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
peace and quiet	Tranquility; freedom from stress or interruptions.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
second banana	A comedian who plays a secondary or supporting role, especially as straight man and traditionally in vaudeville or burlesque theatre.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
sigh of relief	A reassurance or support, something that reduces stress from an arduous activity.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
blow off steam	To rant or shout in order to relieve stress; to vent.	Rate it: (4.50 / 4 votes)
bury the lead	To begin a story with details of secondary importance to the reader while postponing more essential points or facts.	Rate it: (4.50 / 2 votes)
second banana	A person who serves in a supporting, secondary, or subsidiary capacity; an assistant.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
take a licking and keep on ticking	To be tough; to have endurance; to have the capacity to absorb stress or damage, but still be able to function.	Rate it: (4.00 / 3 votes)
drain the swamp when up to one's neck in alligators	(idiomatic) When performing a long and complex task, and when you've gotten utterly immersed in secondary and tertiary unexpected tangential subtasks, it's easy to lose sight of the initial objective. This sort of distraction can be particularly problematic if the all-consuming subtask or sub-subtask is not, after all, particularly vital to the original, primary goal, but ends up sucking up time and resources (out of all proportion to its actual importance) only because it seems so urgent.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
wind down	Relax; get rid of stress.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
double up	To have a secondary use.	Rate it: (2.00 / 2 votes)
Take a Backseat	To be at a secondary position or to be at a level of inferiority as compared to someone else	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
basket case	One made powerless or ineffective, as by nerves, panic or stress.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bit on the side	Secondary lover, mistress.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il s'agit bien de cela (ironic.)	That is quite a secondary consideration.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
knock-on effect	A secondary, often unintended effect.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
point up	To emphasise or stress	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
put one foot in front of the other	To walk, decomposed to stress the fundamentality of the task.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sigh of relief	A release of stress through breathing motions.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
spin off	To create as a by-product or a secondary derived work.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stay together	To remain loyal in times of stress or difficulty; to avoid separation despite pressure to do so.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
swift retreat	To back off quickly/A place you can go to quickly to recover or escape from stress.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tail wagging the dog	A minor or secondary part of something controlling the whole.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)