Meaning of blow a hole through | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To destroy the integrity or cohesion of.
   idiomatic
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, hole, through.

Examples

“That one small confession to a man she barely knew blew a hole through her emotional dam and everything she'd held back for the last week flooded out.”

“'By taking down the towers, Sept 11 blew a hole through the errors of the past.”

“Unless the letters were fake, they blew a hole through Martha's story.”

“By rolling into the city that Vladimir Putin still claimed as his own, the leader of Ukraine would blow a hole through the stories of conquest and imperial glory that Russian propagandists had been using for months to justify the war.”

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