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Aubrey Carter

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All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

A case.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

Meaning like everything that was hidden has come to light.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

I love when that happens.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

Discovered everything that was hidden.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

We often add wide to add emphasis to this.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

We'll say it was blown wide open, right?

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

So the witness testimony blew the case wide open.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

And so it really has the same meaning.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

We just sort of add that to emphasize.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

Yeah.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

So to move quickly past something or someone.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

So for example, she blew past all the other runners to take the lead.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

Right.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

So just to move quickly past someone will say you blow past them.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

It doesn't have to be physical in any way.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

Like if you move past someone quickly in some way, we can say you blew past them.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

We also use it to mean ignoring someone and continuing.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

So for example, the teacher blew past the interruptions and continued the lesson.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

And teachers often have to do this.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary

If someone's interrupting in the class, they just have to blow past it and keep teaching, right?