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blow someone out Sl. to kill someone, especially with gunshots. (Fixed order.) Lefty set out to blow Max out once and for all. Lefty wanted to blow Max out too. blow something out to extinguish a flame with a puff of breath. I blew the candle out. I blew out the candles one by one. blow out somebody also blow somebody out to defeat someone completely Sometimes you play really badly and get blown out. blow out something also blow something out to make something stop working I turned on my new television and blew out the picture tube. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Now blow out the trumpets, and may God's benison be with the honest men I have heard of such things before, but never came across, till tonight, a man who would actually shoot himself in order to gain a vulgar notoriety, or blow out his brains for spite, if he finds that people don't care to pat him on the back for his sanguinary intentions. The bourgeois permitted the wind to blow out their candles in the windows, and their dogs to stray; the iron chains were stretched only in a state of siege; the prohibition to wear daggers wrought no other changes than from the name of the Rue Coupe-Gueule to the name of the Rue-Coupe-Gorge* which is an evident progress. |
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