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blow the doors off

blow the doors off verb: to be much more important or impressive than.

Verb

blow the doors off (third-person singular simple present blows the doors off, present participle blowing the doors off, simple past blew the doors off, past participle blown the doors off)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To be much more important or impressive than.
    • You won “Last Comic Standing” in 2006. What impact did that have on your career?
      Well, it just blew the doors off everything I was doing up to that point. I’ve been doing 200 shows a year ever since then. It definitely launched me into the abyss.2019 July 25, Vicki Dean, “Josh Blue on social media, improvisation and more”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Forms of blow the doors off

third-person singular presentblows the doors off
present participleblowing the doors off
pastblew the doors off
past participleblown the doors off

Questions about blow the doors off

What does blow the doors off mean?
Blow the doors off means to be much more important or impressive than.
What part of speech is blow the doors off?
Blow the doors off is a verb.
What is the past tense of blow the doors off?
The past tense of blow the doors off is blew the doors off.

Words near blow the doors off in the dictionary

  1. blow someone's trumpet
  2. blow sunshine up someone's ass
  3. blow sunshine up someone's skirt
  4. blow the coals
  5. blow the cobwebs away
  6. blow the doors off
  7. blow the gaff
  8. blow the grampus
  9. blow the lid off
  10. blow the roof off
  11. blow the whistle

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