blow out• We tried to light a fire but the wind kept blowing it out.• You have to blow out all the candles or your wish won't come true.• He blew out the candle and went to sleep.
blow itself out• She could do nothing but batten down the conversationalhatches and wait until the storm blew itself out.• The morning of the third day, they woke up and saw the storm had blown itself out.• This storm was not going to blow itself out in an hour - not even for him.• Next morning dawnsbright and clear; the storm has blown itself out in the night.• The storm had blown itself out, leaving the skypearly.• The storm had blown itself out, there was only steadydrizzle.• They had waited for the Darkfall to blow itself out, which it did in spectacularfashion.• Governments were paralysed, hoping the storm would blow itself out without affecting their friends and families and favouriteprojects.
blow your/somebody’s brains out• There was a mercurypool for losers to reflect in while they blew their brains out.• In a few years you will blow your brains out, a bankrupt.• The bullet took him right between the eyes, blowing his brains out through the back of his head.• Huntingrabbits with hawks is surely better than blowing their brains out with shotguns.