blow wide open

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blow something wide open

1. to make it impossible to guess who will win a competition. She was the favourite to win, so her withdrawal has blown the election wide open.

2. to make something that someone is trying to achieve fail completely, often by telling people something which should have been a secret. He's threatening to blow the whole operation wide open if we don't give him a bigger share of the profits.

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