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41blow-back valve — The valve in the flap system that prevents the flaps from being lowered at too high an air speed. If the flaps are down and the air speed increases to too high a value, the flaps will retract automatically. Also called a flap overload valve. Blow …
42blow molding — blowing (def. 3). * * * in glass production, method of forming an article of glass by blowing molten glass into a mold. This operation is performed with the aid of a hollow metal tube that has a mouthpiece at one end. A gob of molten glass… …
43blow someone's mind — vb a. to give someone a hallucinogenic drug b. to astound, transport, bamboozle or overwhelm someone, or in some other way to radically and rapidly alter their mood or consciousness. An extension of the first sense. ► We re not out to blow people …
44blow — To become defective either by leaking or burning through. Also see arc blow striking blow …
45blow someone's brains out — verb To shoot in the head. In Conſequence of this a profound Silence enſued, the Earl depending on his Skill in the Sword, longing to run the Baronet through the Body; and Sir Timothy, knowing himſelf a good Shot, to blow the Earl’s Brains out …
46blow-in — Irish a foreigner who meddles in domestic affairs Used in the South rather than the North: [Cosgrave] fumed against blow ins a jibe apparently aimed at Bruce Arnold, the English born reporter of the Irish Independent. (J. J. Lee,… …
47blow one's nose — clear one s nose of mucus by blowing through it into a handkerchief. → blow …
48blow one’s own horn — AND toot one’s own horn tv. to brag. □ Gary sure likes to toot his own horn. □ “I hate to blow my own horn,” said Bill, lying through his teeth …
49blow football — noun An indoor tabletop game, normally for children, simulating football (soccer), in which plastic straws are blown through in order to move a small ball and score goals …
50blow hot and cold — Synonyms and related words: alternate, around the bush, back and fill, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, change, chop and change, choplogic, dither, dodge, ebb and flow, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, flounder,… …
