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get something out of one's system
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do something until you are not interested in it anymore

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We talk about the different processes in our bodies as different “systems.” For example, the digestive system processes our food, and the respiratory system helps us breathe. Your body as a whole is basically one big system whose parts work together to keep you going.

Getting something out of your system, then, is doing an activity until you have no more use for it. Maybe there’s a terrible TV show that you can’t stop watching, and you watch 10 episodes in a row. When you turn on the 11th episode, suddenly you’re not interested anymore—because you’ve gotten it out of your system.

Some people think that getting it out of their system can work with bigger issues too, like smoking, or drinking, or partying too hard. They think that perhaps if they party all night on Saturday, they’ll get it out of their system and not want to party again.

In the movie Savages, Blake Lively was able to act as a darker, more negative character. She got behaving this way out of her system, so she wouldn’t go on behaving negatively in her regular life.

Have you ever tried to get something out of your system? Did it work?

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“I used to be a heavy smoker, but I finally got it out of my system.”

“Exercise always helps me get nervous energy out of my system.”

“Jeremy parties all the time, but it doesn’t seem like he ever gets it out of his system.”