reel out
Let line go
To reel out is to unwind or release something from a spool or reel, letting it extend outward: He reeled out fifty feet of fishing line.
The phrase extends to anything delivered in a long, continuous stream: She reeled out a list of complaints, The politician reeled out statistics for twenty minutes.
- uncoilStraighten from spiral form
- unreelWind off storage
- unrollFlatten from spiral
- unfurlSpread out from rolled
- unwindRelease accumulated tension
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