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blowing up

NOUN
  1. a severe rebuke
    he deserved the berating that the coach gave him

How To Use blowing up In A Sentence

  • These require you to face manipulative individuals, relinquish your rights unfairly or be exquisitely tactful when you'd be justified in blowing up. Times, Sunday Times
  • A white strip of birch bark blowing up from the hollow over the brown floor of the grove made her heart stand still. Anne of Green Gables
  • i told my wife the other night, i'm hoping that obama can slip in a few "dishonors" and "dishonorables" under the radar on tuesday night. mccain will catch it and it will set him off. i honestly think that's the one button that you can push with mccain that he can't resist blowing up over -- hitting his honor (or lack thereof). Obama Campaign Launches Pre-emptive Ad Strike Against McCain's Planned Character Assault
  • Even if a Japanese bomb missed its target, it was likely to find something worth blowing up.
  • You got so tired of nearly every risk-taking venture blowing up in your face that you've pretty much stopped attempting anything the least bit chancy.
  • The conditions had a major influence on this game with a strong, gusting wind blowing up the field, bringing with it freezing showers of rain and hail.
  • That's blowing up everyone's binaries big time. Times, Sunday Times
  • Inflate the scare index by blowing up balloons and placing a glowstick inside. The Sun
  • This tyre's a bit flat; it needs blowing up.
  • Indeed, the following year, in May 1947, Hecht used his own proceeds from the play to pay for an ad in the New York Herald Tribune congratulating the Irgun on “blowing up British trains, robbing British banks, killing British tommies.” Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
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