Blow

Lear. Blow windes, & crack your cheeks; Rage, blow / You Cataracts, and Hyrricano's ſpout,

Tend to th' Maſters whiſtle: Blow till thou burſt thy winde, if roome enough.

Hark how it rains and blows!

Blow the dust off that book and open it up.

To-night the winds begin to rise ⁠And roar from yonder dropping day: ⁠The last red leaf is whirl’d away, The rooks are blown about the skies; […]

The leaves blow through the streets in the fall.

"This is an unexpected pleasure!" exclaimed he. "What good fortune blows Lady Marchmont hither?"

to blow bubbles

to blow glass

Joe puffed on his pipe and blew a couple of smoke rings.

to blow the fire

to blow an egg

to blow one’s nose

The submarine blew its main ballast tanks.

Blow your horn! That car is about to hit us!

In the harbor, the ships’ horns blew.

There let the pealing organ blow,

There’s nothing more thrilling to the whale watcher than to see a whale surface and blow.

There she blows! (i.e. “I see a whale spouting!”)

Soon after he [a porpoise] appeared again, blowing very hard, but the next moment he turned over; Rasmus was not slow in putting the boat-hook in him and hauling him into the boat with my assistance.

Get away from that burning gas tank! It’s about to blow!

Hitler is very, very important, and something's going to blow in Europe.

The demolition squad neatly blew the old hotel up.

The aerosol can was blown to bits.

However, something once happened on the railway there which showed the very best of mankind: heroism, duty, self-sacrifice and calm professionalism under terrible pressure. It is a story which gives us far, far better reasons for remembering this attractive little town, which without these heroes would have been blown to smithereens in a gigantic explosion. (Two railwaymen lost their lives in 1944 when a wagon in an ammunition train caught fire and blew up, an even worse disaster was averted however.)

He blew the tires and the engine.

He tried to sprint, but his ligaments blew and he was barely able to walk to the finish line.

A common problem for double glazed windows (or doors) is mist or condensation between the panes of glass. This is known as a blown window or failed double glazing. But what does it cost to repair?

I managed to blow $1000 at blackjack in under an hour.

I blew $35 thou on a car.

We blew an opportunity to get benign corporate sponsorship.

‘Holy Mackerel, Ann! I’m certainly glad we blew ourselves for that outfit of yours.’

You'd better go / Everything's closed / Can't find a room / Money's all blown / Nowhere to sleep

I blew it and forgot to start the spaghetti, so I had plenty of sauce and no pasta.

Good luck, and don’t blow it!

[…] I put myself on the line for you. I told you I wasn't sure if I was ready for a relationship again and you blew it. You blew it! You call this a fresh start? This doesn't look like a fresh start to me. You're dicking me around just like the rest of them, Drew.

Hodgson’s team attracted a certain amount of sympathy and understanding after the Italy defeat but it was beyond them to play with the same attacking panache and, if there is to be a feat of escapology, it will need an almost implausible combination of results and handouts in the final games of Group D. More realistically, they have blown it in their first week.

This blows!

Who did you have to blow to get those backstage passes?

The mandem all used to go round there and get head off her, the sister blowing the man line by line while her brother shotted downstairs in the stairwell.

Let’s blow this joint.

It's hard on a fella, when he don't know his way around If I don't find me a honey to help me spend my money I'm gonna have to blow this town.

I'm a wanted man and I'm blowing town Don't waste your time trying to hunt me down

Shall they hoyſt me vp, And ſhew me to the ſhowting Varlotarie Of cenſuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt, Be gentle graue vnto me, rather on Nylus mudde Lay me ſtarke-nak'd, and let the water-Flies Blow me into abhorring;

Fer. I am, in my condition A Prince (Miranda) I do thinke a King (I would not ſo) and would no more endure This wodden ſlauerie, then to ſuffer The fleſh-flie blow my mouth: heare my ſoule ſpeake.

That decision was given an added kick by fury when he found that Podson had left the safe door open, and flies had blown the meat.

[…] said the bookseller, “but I cannot risk the expence of your debut - There are critics without as well as within a theatre.” - I know it, said I, interrupting him; “men who, like flies blowing on a piece of wholesome meat, can convert it into carrion - […]

In Cornwall, a singular mode of curing conger, once prevailed, which was, merely to split the conger in halves, and, without any further preparation, to hang them up in a kind of shambles erected for that purpose, when the flies, blowing on the fish, the progeny would devour all the parts liable to decomposition, whilst the residue, being dried in the sun, became in this manner fit for use: and, when perfectly cured, where exported to Spain and Portugal. There they were ground into powder, and with this preparation, the natives of those Countries used to thicken their soups.

[…]and often after they drop off the punctured skins are the seats of maggots, etc., owing to flies blowing on these injuries.

Through the court his courtesy was blown.

O peace, now he's deepely in: looke how imagination blowes him.

Rob. Miſtris Ford, Miſtris Ford: heere's Miſtris Page at the doore, ſsweating, and blowing, and looking wildely, and would needs ſpeake with you preſently.

I don't want the worst characters in hell to be running after me with friendly messages and little testimonials of admiration for Smythe, and blowing about his talents, and bragging on him, and belching their villainous fire and brimstone all through the atmosphere and making my place smell worse than a menagerie.

He didn't just set around and try to out sweettalk^([sic]) somebody; he got out and out-fit somebody. He wouldn't be blowing when he told his boys how he fit for the woman he got.

At the breaking edge with him and completely fed up with his everlasting bragging and blowing about his personal exploits, and desirous of putting him somewhere, anywhere, so they wouldn't be continuously annoyed by him, […]

Audie never liked him because he was further in with old Craig than he was, bragging and blowing about his work and the things he could do, while Audie sat quiet as a mouse listening to his blab.

'As for that,' says Will, 'I could tell it well enough, if I had it, but I must not be seen anywhere among my old acquaintances, for I am blown, and they will all betray me.'

That girl has a wonderful voice; just listen to her blow!

Uh, oh! I gotta blow!

We’re having a bit of a blow this afternoon.

Now they were faced with the problem of a northerly blow, which could soon send a heavy swell clean into the bay.

The players were able to get a blow during the last timeout.

Hi there, you're a pretty cute chick, want to snort some blow?

Hey man, you wanna cop some blow? / Sure, what you got, dust, flakes or rocks?

Jesus Christ, George, I don't see you for two years and you show up on my doorstep with 110 pounds of blow.

I ran out of blow a long time ago / I can't smoke a J or my guts fly away

His girlfriend gave him a blow.

The sounding of the alarm was the signal to begin the emergency blow maneuver. At this time, witnesses reported, the guest at the high-pressure air controls operated the levers under close supervision of Navy personnel, and the submarine started to rise at a sharp angle.

Blow the expense!

[H]e suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said 'Bother!' and 'Oh blow!' and also 'Hang spring-cleaning!' and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.

A fabricator is used to direct a sharp blow to the surface of the stone.

During an exchange to end round 13, Duran landed a blow to the midsection.

There he found that […] Hanno's camp was crowded with cattle and carriages, and a mixed multitude of unarmed men, and even of women and children; and that a vigorous blow might win it with all its spoil: the indefatigable general was absent, scouring the country for additional supplies of corn.

A further blow to the group came in 1917 when Thomson died while canoeing in Algonquin Park.

a most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows

Norwich returned to second in the Championship with victory over Nottingham Forest, whose promotion hopes were dealt another blow.

Click goes his shears; click, click, click. / Wide are the blows, and his hand is moving quick, / The ringer looks round, for he lost it by a blow, / And he curses that old shearer with the bare belled ewe.

"Blows" of quartz, crop out above the layers of slate, granite, and sandstone formation.

The blow is important because it transitions the reader and eventually the audience from one scene to another.

You ſeeme to me as Diane in her Orbe, / As chaſte as is the budde ere it be blowne:

How blows the citron grove.

Boys are at best but pretty buds unblown, / Whose scent and hues are rather guessed than known;

No joy the blowing season gives, ⁠The herald melodies of spring, ⁠But in the songs I love to sing A doubtful gleam of solace lives.

Irám indeed is gone with all its Rose, And Jamshýd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows; But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields, And still a Garden by the Water blows.

Romanesco is slow to blow and more forgiving to grow than most cauliflowers, while being perhaps the most delicious and certainly the nuttiest-flavoured of the lot.

roses in full blow

[F]lowers that in perennial blow / Round the moist marge of Persian fountains cling; […]

[H]e believed he could shew me such a blow of tulips as was not to be matched in the whole country.

Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards; / Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, / Night and day journeys a coffin.