Aubrey Carter

Yes.

Well, this is fun.

We are going to talk about blizzards just a bit today because we are doing the third installment of a three-part series with phrasal verbs with the word blow.

And yeah, I'm excited for all of these.

You can listen to these out of order.

So if you miss the other two, stay to the end.

We'll share how you can find those.

Listen to this one first.

So each of these has multiple meanings.

We're going to start with blow open.

And some of these are also not like a phrasal verb.

They don't have this figurative meaning, right?

So blow open, just a verb with a preposition means being opened by a strong wind, right?

Like a sudden gust of wind blew the front door open.

Have you?

No, the sirens, the tornado sirens.

I'll see videos, you know, I'm like, that sounds horrifying.

Exactly, right.

But blow open also means exposing something that was previously hidden, like the investigation blew open the corruption scheme, right?

We'll often hear this on a true crime podcast that like a witness testimony or a whistleblower will blow open