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The truth, escaping through a door it kicked open.
means A sudden, often emotional release of something — words, anger, laughter — that had been building up under pressure.
from Straightforward Old English/Germanic carpentry: 'out' plus 'burst,' from Old English berstan, meaning to break apart suddenly and violently. The word has always meant a rupture — something inside forcing its way out through a surface that can no longer hold it. No disguise here; it means almost exactly what it sounds like.
- timing
- Always arrives one sentence too late for restraint
- root
- From out plus burst, bluntly literal since the 1700s
- aftermath
- Followed almost immediately by the word sorry
- physics
- Pressure finds the weakest exit, not the wisest one