Aubrey Carter
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Unless someone says something, you might do that without even realizing it.
Exactly.
And then I said, oh, or you said that might blow open our plans for your dad's surprise birthday party.
So we have this secret and it might get blown open.
And when you read it, it almost sounded like blow up.
You could also say blow up here.
That might blow up our plans, meaning ruin them.
That would work here as well.
It kind of depends on exactly what you're saying.
Blow up would be like ruin and blow open would be she would give away the secret.
Expose the secret.
More like she might blow open our plans, meaning she isn't going to be able to keep the secret.
But you could totally say both there.
I love that.
If you missed them, part one was 2552, how to master confusing past tense verbs in English.
And then part two was 2556.
You could scroll up if you missed that.
Don't blow off phrasal verbs.
Absolutely, right?
Each of these has so many meanings.