B
Idioms beginning with "B"
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[blow over] {v.}
To come to an end; pass away with little or no bad effects.
The sky was black, as if a bad storm were coming, but it blew over and the sun came out.
They were bitter enemies for a while, but the quarrel blew over.
* /He was […]
[blow taps] {v. phr.}
To sound the final bugle call of the evening in a camp or military base.
After taps is blown the boy scouts go to their bunks to sleep.
[blow the gaff] {v. phr.}
To open one's mouth to reveal a secret.
When Al cheated on his wife, his younger brother blew the gaff on him.
[blow the lid off] {v. phr.}, {informal}
Suddenly to reveal the truth about a matter that has been kept as a secret either by private persons or by some governmental agency.
The clever journalists blew the lid off the Watergate cover-up.
[blow the whistle on] {v. phr.}, {slang}
1. To inform against; betray.
The police caught one of the bank robbers, and he blew the whistle on two more.
2. To act against, stop, or tell people the secrets of (crime or lawlessness).
* /The mayor […]
[blow up] {v.}
1a. To break or destroy or to be destroyed by explosion.
He blew up the plane by means of a concealed bomb.
The fireworks factory blew up when something went wrong in an electric switch.
1b. {informal}
To explode with anger or […]
[blow up in one's face] {v. phr.}, {informal}
To fail completely and with unexpected force.
The thief's plan to rob the bank blew up in his face when a policeman stopped him.
[blowout] {n.}
1. An explosion of a tire or a fuse.
Jim's van veered sharply to the right after his car had a blowout.
2. A big party.
After graduation from college, my son and his friends staged a huge blowout.
[blue]
See:
[BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA],
[BOLT FROM THE BLUE],
[ONCE IN A BLUE MOON],
[OUT OF THE BLUE] or [OUT OF A CLEAR BLUE SKY].