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If a child had bumped himself, one would blow three times on the place and it would 'fly away.'" [108] Burns, and conditions that in some fashion resemble burns, such as fevers, boils, sore throats and rashes, are naturally the most common objects of blowing among modern folk-remedies, [109] for example the Shetland cure that requires blowing ...
The Baffled Knight" or "Blow Away the Morning Dew" (Roud 11, Child 112) is a traditional ballad existing in numerous variants. The first-known version was published in Thomas Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia (1609) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] with a matching tune, making this one of the few early ballads for which there is extant original music.
To blow a game is to lose it after having the lead. "We had the game in hand and we blew it." To blow a pitch ("by" a batter) is to throw one so fast the batter is unable to keep up (with it). To blow a save is to lose a lead or the game after coming into the game in a "save situation". This has a technical meaning in baseball statistics.
A "petard" is a "small bomb used to blow in doors and breach walls" and comes from the French pétard, which, through Middle French (péter) and Old French (pet), ultimately comes from the Latin pedere ("to break wind") [19] or, much more commonly, the slang form "to fart".
"Blow Away", a song by Kate Bush from Never for Ever Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Blown Away .
blow 1. Crazy party [8] 2. Leave [8] 3. Big wad in nightclubs; spend one's money excessively or irresponsibly [42] 4. Cocaine [42] blow someone down Kill or murder someone; blow someone away [43] Wooden wall telephone with a hand-cranked magneto generator blower. Main article: Telephone. Telephone [31] blue serge Sweetheart [8] bluenose
"Blow Away" is a song by English musician George Harrison that was released in February 1979 on his album George Harrison. It was also the lead single from the album. The song is one of Harrison's most popular recordings from his solo career and has appeared on the compilations Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989 and Let It Roll: Songs by George ...
Explosion of unserviceable ammunition and other military items The explosion of the Castle Bravo nuclear bomb.. An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume of a given amount of matter associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases.