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blown the doors off

blown the doors off is the past participle of blow the doors off.

Meaning of blow the doors off

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

Questions about blown the doors off

What is blown the doors off the past participle of?
Blown the doors off is the past participle of blow the doors off.

Words near blown the doors off in the dictionary

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

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