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blow out
verb- (of a police case) to fail UK
Metropolitan Police slang. Figurative use of “blow out” (a pneumatic tyre puncturing suddenly). - — Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard, p. 321, 1970
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 28, 1996
- to reject an agreement or responsibility UK, 1984
More often elaborated as BLOW OUT OF THE WATER - to manufacture drugs UK
- I should have blew out a kilogram or so [of E] then quit. — Eleusis Lightning on the Sun, p. 331, 2001
- to lengthen the odds offered on a horse or greyhound; to have its odds lengthen AUSTRALIA, 1911
- My situation became hopeless when Greg, to my utter amazement, blew out the local to sixes. — Robert English, Toxic Kisses, p. 158, 1979
- He could smell trouble before a bet was laid in the shape of a big plunge or a favourite about to blow out the backdoor. — Clive Galea, Slipper!, p. 25, 1988
- It was a win not without controversy, as a whisper went around the track said Keltrice was suffering an injury and the colt’s price blew out in the betting ring, but he showed no ill effects in recording a powerful win. — Sydney Morning Herald, p. 1, 26 February 1994
- I was firming in the market, he was blowing out and when he’s about a hundred to one, he decideds to play his party trick. — Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, p. 136, 1995
▶ blow out of the water
to reject something absolutely, especially when applied to an agreement or responsibility UK- Having seen his softly-softly, “try not to offend” policy blown out of the water by Israel’s offensive of the past two weeks[.] — New Statesman, 15 April 2002
- Republicans say that if they were edging toward any rapprochement over joining the policing board, that has been blown out of the water. — The Guardian, 7 October 2002
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