Aubrey Carter
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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
A case.
Meaning like everything that was hidden has come to light.
I love when that happens.
Discovered everything that was hidden.
We often add wide to add emphasis to this.
We'll say it was blown wide open, right?
So the witness testimony blew the case wide open.
And so it really has the same meaning.
We just sort of add that to emphasize.
Yeah.
So to move quickly past something or someone.