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To blow over

tɪ bloʊ ˈoʊvər
Moses kneels before the burning bush and protects his face. An angel flies above him, blowing a trumpet. A flag with the title of the book hangs from the trumpet. In the flames are Hebrew letters that symbolize the voice of God speaking to Moses.
Moses kneels before the burning bush and protects his face. An angel flies above him, blowing a trumpet. A flag with the title of the book hangs from the trumpet. In the flames are Hebrew letters that symbolize the voice of God speaking to Moses.
Illustrations
Twelve winds, like male figures sitting on the clouds, blow on the globe in their midst. In the foreground on either side of the title two female personifications; left with a globe and right with measuring instruments. At the top left the sun and right the moon, and in the middle a swan with a band in its beak. The globe is carried on a chain by a hand protruding from the clouds.
Twelve winds, like male figures sitting on the clouds, blow on the globe in their midst. In the foreground on either side of the title two female personifications; left with a globe and right with measuring instruments. At the top left the sun and right the moon, and in the middle a swan with a band in its beak. The globe is carried on a chain by a hand protruding from the clouds.
Vignette for a map of Europe, with Fame blowing its trumpet from a rock. Minerva stands a little lower and watches two children get splashed by a sea monster.
Vignette for a map of Europe, with Fame blowing its trumpet from a rock. Minerva stands a little lower and watches two children get splashed by a sea monster.
Male god, possibly Aeolus, sitting on an air-filled bladder blowing from wind atop a boulder. Residents of the Northern Arctic stand on the ice dressed in warm clothing and weapons. A half-naked, skinny woman sinks her teeth into a bone. A bear and walrus swim between ice chunks and bears and arctic foxes walk on the main land. The empty space on the boulder is intended for the title which is still missing here.
Male god, possibly Aeolus, sitting on an air-filled bladder blowing from wind atop a boulder. Residents of the Northern Arctic stand on the ice dressed in warm clothing and weapons. A half-naked, skinny woman sinks her teeth into a bone. A bear and walrus swim between ice chunks and bears and arctic foxes walk on the main land. The empty space on the boulder is intended for the title which is still missing here.
A triton (merman: half fish, half man), half-length, with conspicuous fins at the ears, blowing on a conch.
A triton (merman: half fish, half man), half-length, with conspicuous fins at the ears, blowing on a conch.
The blowing up by means of burners of the ship bridge built by the Duke of Parma in the Scheldt before Antwerp, 1585. In the caption the legend AN in Latin.
The blowing up by means of burners of the ship bridge built by the Duke of Parma in the Scheldt before Antwerp, 1585. In the caption the legend AN in Latin.
Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Governor of the Netherlands. In the background the blowing up with burners of the ship bridge built by the Duke of Parma in the Scheldt before Antwerp, 5 April 1585.
Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Governor of the Netherlands. In the background the blowing up with burners of the ship bridge built by the Duke of Parma in the Scheldt before Antwerp, 5 April 1585.
A farmer sits on a chair and blows smoke from his mouth. He is holding a pipe in his left hand. A mock poem in the frame below the performance.
A farmer sits on a chair and blows smoke from his mouth. He is holding a pipe in his left hand. A mock poem in the frame below the performance.
A boy, leaning on a railing, blows bubbles. A girl watches as she holds his hat. In the background a garden with statues. At the bottom in the margin is a two-line verse in French.
Boy and girl blowing bubbles
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. To blow over
    to pass away, to subside, as a danger or a scandal
Quotations
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
Christian Nevell Bovee
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. bláwan; Ger. blähen, blasen; L. flare.

Usage in the news

Anastasio Hernandez Rojas screamed in agony as US border agents rained blows on him and delivered 50,000 volts of electricity to his body over and over. phoenixnewtimes.com

Facts should cause fad to blow over. ashingtontimes.com

But authorities claim the woman is too obese to roll over, and have discovered that the two-year old actually died from blows to the head. crz.com

The debate over unintended acceleration, having lingered around the periphery of the auto industry for more than two decades, may be about to receive a fatal blow. designnews.com

Now, as that appears to be kinda blowing over knew drama is on the horizon. 107jamz.com

Today, the wind in Helmand blows over Camp Leatherneck and I am remembering my trip to the beautiful island state. evesun.com

We do something, or don't do something, that predictably blows up in our face and then we have to put the pieces back together and start all over. tauntongazette.com

Mitt also wonders where the outcry is from the loony left over the Obama decision to blow-up the system. rko.com

I was visiting my four-month-old grandson Ashton over the weekend, and I was really impressed by how hard he was trying to talk by blowing spit and laughing at me, I thought that was really special. crz.com

The 19th ranked Cajuns softball team used a huge, seven-run sixth inning to blow open a tie game and jump out to a 9-2 lead over McNeese State on Tuesday night at Lamson Park. espn1420.com

Tax season is over, so it's time to start planning what you'll blow your refund check on. kezj.com

When it comes to Ted Williams , the golden voiced (formerly) homeless man, it seems that the ratings-hungry execs and producers over at NBC and CBS are about ready to come to blows Anchorman style. theriver1079.com

The annual list is interesting to watch as some of the picks blow up and take over the Hip-Hop spotlight. bozemanskissfm.com

The senior play caller led the Lancers to a 27-8 blow out win over Camarillo last Friday. keyt.com

US authorities arrested five self-described anarchists in the Cleveland area for allegedly plotting to blow up a four-lane highway bridge over a national park, but had no ties to foreign terrorism, the US Justice Department said on Tuesday. kgmi.com

Usage in scientific papers

As is well known, over C any conic bundle blows down to the ruling of a geometrically ruled surface.
Real Rational Surfaces Are Quasi-Simple

This mapping to a homeomorphism over B ∗ is called the blowing up of B0,ǫ,n with center {0}.
On certain generalized Hardy's inequalities and applications

The general desingularization algorithm of [BM3, BM5] can be adapted to varieties over k that are merely locally toric or locally binomial, but again has additional complexity due to blowings-up needed to guarantee that combinatorial centres chosen locally as in the toric case extend to global smooth centres.
Desingularization of toric and binomial varieties

Then ∪Qij is the fixed locus of ιA , and eA → A is the blowing-up along ∪Qij by Example 6.1.5. • The involution ˜ιA of eA extends to an involution (˜ιA )∼ U of eA over U , which is a lift of ιA by Corollary 6.1.3.
Transcendental lattices and supersingular reduction lattices of a singular $K3$ surface

These invariants of blow-Nash equivalence, coming from the theory of motivic integration , are formal power series whose coefficients are polynomials constructed by considering some measure over spaces of arcs connected to the given germ.
Blow-Nash types of simple singularities

Usage in literature

Strike but a blow, and not one of you will ever go back over the trail to his home. "The Bridge of the Gods" by Frederic Homer Balch

He hurled his hatred over the water and into the trees, blowing Indian bodies to shreds. "Shaman" by Robert Shea

The wind was blowing her hair into disorder, and he bent forward to draw her cloak more warmly over her chest. "The Education of Eric Lane" by Stephen McKenna

Sometimes he raised it only a foot above the ground to poise for a blow, sometimes he swung it from over his shoulder. "Rosinante to the Road Again" by John Dos Passos

He can go to Paris and come back if this blows over. "Mummery" by Gilbert Cannan

I looked to see her stagger from another blow, heel over, perhaps sink. "The Red Hand of Ulster" by George A. Birmingham

If he tried to lie to in that blow, it would be all over in two hours. "Mayflower (Flor de mayo)" by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

We waited a few weeks for the storm to blow over, and then begun again, this time more cautious than before by a darned sight. "Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas" by Lloyd Osbourne

But Pomp was misled from the first, because it was believed he could be won over before the time came to strike the blow. "Adrift on the Pacific" by Edward S. Ellis

Tom started round, to find Pete's ill-looking dog close at hand, but ready to spring away over the bushes as if expecting a blow. "The Vast Abyss" by George Manville Fenn

Usage in poetry
Soon I’ll return to thee
Hopeful and brave,
When the dead leaves
Blow over thy grave.
"True Love" by Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal Author object (179)
Sometimes I know the way
You walk, up over the bay;
It is a wind from that far sea
That blows the fragrance of your hair to me.
"Absence" by Charlotte Mary Mew Author object (111)
Farewell we call to hearth and hall!
Though wind may blow and rain may fall,
We must away ere break of day
Far over wood and mountain tall.
"Bilbo's Adventure Song" by J R R Tolkien Author object (318)
Farewell we call to hearth and hall!
Though wind may blow and rain may fall,
We must away, ere break of day
Far over the wood and mountain tall.
"Over The Misty Mountains Cold" by J R R Tolkien Author object (318)
BLOW, LONG TRADE WINDS of American speech,
Over this land where we can rise, unfurl
Our new and untried sails, and drive with you
Westward forever to eternity—
"Proem to American Song" by Paul Engle Author object (531)
Medreams I see just now his face, the strawberry-bright,
Uplifted to the blackened heavens, while the tempestuous winds
Blow fiercely over and round him, and the smiting sleet-shower blinds
The hero of Galang to-night!
"O'Hussey's Ode To The Maguire" by James Clarence Mangan Author object (321)