blow it
Idioms-
Spoil, botch, or bungle something, as in That was a great opportunity, but now I've blown it . [ Slang ; c. 1940]
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blow one's lines . Make a mistake in speaking one's part in a theatrical production, as in Ben blew his lines, but Dean came to the rescue . [Mid-1900s]
Example Sentences
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“You can come to a Marriott in Marina del Rey and change your life and blow it wide open.”
From Los Angeles Times
“Most people don’t blow up their budget because they’re careless. They blow it up because the budget they created was built around an unrealistically precise number,” Juan G. HernandezAriano, a financial planner and principal at WealthCreate, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch
It just waits for the wind to blow it.
From Literature
It took so long to get the hybrid; it’d be a shame to blow it up.
“And as long as I don’t mess those up, it’s tough to blow it.”
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