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blown up in one's face

blown up in one's face is the past participle of blow up in one's face.

Meaning of blow up in one's face

Verb

blow up in one's face (third-person singular simple present blows up in one's face, present participle blowing up in one's face, simple past blew up in one's face, past participle blown up in one's face)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To fail disastrously.
    • Whether the specific pecking order of the game I let them play today had anything to do with the fact that it blew up in my face after five minutes is a question that can be answered only in empirical terms.1972, James Whittaker, Albert Trieschman, editors, Children Away from Home: A Sourcebook of Residential Treatment

Questions about blown up in one's face

What is blown up in one's face the past participle of?
Blown up in one's face is the past participle of blow up in one's face.

Words near blown up in one's face in the dictionary

  1. blown through
  2. blown to kingdom come
  3. blown tomahawks
  4. blown town
  5. blown up
  6. blown up in one's face
  7. blown up the tote
  8. blown upon
  9. blown water
  10. blown wind up someone's skirt
  11. blown wise to

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