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Vent My Spleen
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it sounds like an activity that should only perform under professional medical supervision. I know what it means, but why does it mean it ?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Iggy, If you click on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_four_humours
the link will take you to an informative website about the bodily 'humours', which were believed in as long ago as by the ancient Greeks. The spleen was originally associated particularly with a melancholy temperament, but Shakespeare seems to have been the first to associate it with rage, which is what we still take it to mean today.