B
Idioms beginning with "B"
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[blow one's brains out] {v. phr.}
1. To shoot yourself in the head.
Mr. Jones lost all his wealth, so he blew his brains out.
2. {slang}
To work very hard; overwork yourself.
* /The boys blew their brains out to get the stage ready for the […]
[blow one's cool] {v. phr.}, {slang}, {informal}
To lose your composure or self-control.
Whatever you say to the judge in court, make sure that you don't blow your cool.
[blow one's lines] or [fluff one's lines] {v. phr.}, {informal}
To forget the words you are supposed to speak while acting in a play.
The noise backstage scared Mary and she blew her lines.
[blow one's mind] {v. phr.}, {slang}, {informal};
{originally from the drug culture}
1. To become wildly enthusiastic over something as if understanding it for the first time in an entirely new light.
* /Read Lyall Watson's book "Supernature", it will […]
[blow one's own horn] or [toot one's own horn] {v. phr.}, {slang}
To praise yourself; call attention to your own skill, intelligence, or successes; boast.
People get tired of a man who is always blowing his own horn.
* /A person who does things […]
[blow one's top] {v. phr.}
To become very excited, angry, hysterical, or furious.
"No need to blow your top, Al," his wife said, "just because you lost a few dollars."
[blow out] {v. phr.}
1. To cease to function; fail; explode (said of tires and fuses).
The accident occurred when Jim's tire blew out on the highway.
The new dishwasher blew out the fuses in the whole house.
2. To extinguish.
* /Jane blew […]
[blowout] {n.}
1. An explosion of a tire or a fuse.
Jim's van veered sharply to the right after his car had a blowout.
2. A big party.
After graduation from college, my son and his friends staged a huge blowout.
[blow over] {v.}
To come to an end; pass away with little or no bad effects.
The sky was black, as if a bad storm were coming, but it blew over and the sun came out.
They were bitter enemies for a while, but the quarrel blew over.
* /He was […]