beat off »
To drive something away with blows.
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blow a fuse »
To lose one's temper; to become enraged.
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blow a gasket »
To become very angry or upset.
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blow a kiss »
To kiss one's hand, then blow on the hand in a direction towards the recipient.
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blow away »
Flabbergast; scintillate; impress greatly.
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blow away »
To be dispersed as a result of being blown.
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blow away »
To cause to go away by blowing.
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blow chunks »
To be very bad, inadequate, unpleasant, or miserable; to thoroughly suck.
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blow chunks »
To suffer from explosive diarrhea.
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blow chunks »
To vomit chunks of undigested food.
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blow hot and cold »
To behave inconsistently; to vacillate or to waver, as between extremes of opinion or emotion.
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blow it »
To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
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blow off »
To pass gas; to break wind.
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blow off »
To vent, usually, to reduce pressure in a container.
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blow off »
To shoot something with a gun, causing it to come disconnected.
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blow off steam »
To rant or shout in order to relieve stress; to vent.
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blow one's chances »
To forfeit opportunities to achieve some goal.
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blow one's top »
To be explosively angry. To lose one's temper.
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blow out of proportion »
To overreact to or overstate; to treat too seriously or be overly concerned with.
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blow over »
To blow on something causing it to topple.
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blow over »
To pass naturally; to go away; to settle or calm down.
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blow smoke »
To speak with a lack of credibility, sense, purpose, or truth; to speak nonsense.
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blow someone out of the water »
To trounce; to defeat someone thoroughly, at a game or in battle.
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blow someone's mind »
To astonish someone, to flabbergast someone.
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blow the whistle »
To disclose information to the public or to appropriate authorities concerning the illegal or socially harmful actions of a person or group, especially a corporation or government agency.
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blow the whistle »
To make a piercing sound which signals a referee's action or the end of a game.
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blow this pop stand »
To exit or remove oneself from a less than exciting location or environment.
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blow this popsicle stand »
To leave an establishment speedily.
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blow up »
To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
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blow up »
To explode something or somebody or destroy something or injure or kill somebody by explosion.
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blow up »
To inflate or fill with air.
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blow up »
To enlarge or zoom in.
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blow up »
To fail disastrously.
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blow up »
To become popular very quickly.
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blow up »
To suddenly get very angry.
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blow up in one's face »
To fail disastrously.
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blow-by-blow »
Detailing every action or occurrence completely.
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coug it »
To suddenly lose a contest through reversal of fortune, mistakes, or bad judgment. The phrase is analogous to "blow it", or "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory".
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deathblow »
A strike or blow that leads to death, especially a coup de grace.
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deathblow »
Something that prevents the completion, or ends the existence of some project etc.
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fat lip »
A swelling on the lip, especially one resulting from a punch or other blow.
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hoist by one's own petard »
To be hurt, or destroyed by one's own plot or device, of one's own doing which one intended for another; to be "blown up by one's own bomb".
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it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good »
There is usually something of benefit to someone, no matter how bad the situation.
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knock down »
Sold with a blow from the gavel.
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knock out »
To render someone unconscious, as by a blow to the head.
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lash out »
To make a sudden blow.
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lay about »
To strike blows in all directions.
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low blow »
A rhetorical attack that is considered unfair or unscrupulous.
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low blow »
An unfair or illegal blow that lands below the opponent’s waist; a groin attack..
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make a mountain out of a molehill »
To treat a problem as greater than it is; to blow something out of proportion; to exaggerate the importance of something trivial.
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peashooter »
A toy gun, consisting of a tube through which peas or small objects are blown.
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puff out »
To blow briefly and lightly.
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sell »
To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
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victory at sea »
Ocean conditions very windblown and messy, possibly to the point of being inimical to surfing and other water sports.
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whistle-blower »
One who reports a problem or violation to the authorities; especially, an employee or former employee who reports a violation by an employer.
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you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows »
You don't need an expert to tell you what you already know.
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