blow someone’s doors off
blow (one's) doors off
1. slang To drive very quickly past another vehicle. The truck zoomed past me on the highway and practically blew my doors off.
2. slang To defeat or best one. We lost 17-1? Wow, they really blew our doors off!
See also: blow, door, off
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
blow someone’s doors off
tv. to defeat someone; to surpass someone. (As if someone were going by another vehicle on the highway at such a high speed that the doors would be blown off in passing.) We’re gonna really blow your doors off in the next game.
See also: blow, door, off
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- blow (one's) doors off
- blow doors off
- zoom past
- blow past (someone or something)
- look past
- brush past (someone or something)
- in times past
- knew it was coming
- know (something) is coming
- the (dim and) distant past