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blowing off course

blowing off course is the present participle and gerund of blow off course.

Meaning of blow off course

Verb

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

  1. (figuratively, transitive, often in the passive) To affect negatively, often in an unexpected manner; to derail.
    • He deserves every credit for establishing Labour as the party of economic competence, for reversing a generation of neglect in the public services and for achieving more than any previous Prime Minister in promoting Britain's place in Europe, until the hurricane over his support for the war on Iraq...2003, Robin Cook, “Prologue”, in The Point of Departure: Why One of Britain's Leading Politicians Resigned over Tony Blair's Decision to Go to War in Iraq, London: Simon & Schuster UK, →ISBN, page 1

Questions about blowing off course

What is blowing off course the present participle and gerund of?
Blowing off course is the present participle and gerund of blow off course.

Words near blowing off course in the dictionary

  1. blowing it
  2. blowing it out one's ass
  3. blowing mill
  4. blowing mills
  5. blowing off
  6. blowing off course
  7. blowing off one's steam
  8. blowing off steam
  9. blowing one's chance
  10. blowing one's cool
  11. blowing one's lid

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