blow the doors off

English

Verb

blow the doors off (third-person singular simple present blows the doors off, present participle blowing the doors off, simple past blew the doors off, past participle blown the doors off)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To be much more important or impressive than.
   • 2019 July 25, Vicki Dean, “Josh Blue on social media, improvisation and more”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune‎^[1]:

     You won “Last Comic Standing” in 2006. What impact did that have on your career?
     Well, it just blew the doors off everything I was doing up to that point. I’ve been doing 200 shows a year ever since then. It definitely launched me into the abyss.

Related terms

• blow the doors open

Further reading

• “blow the doors off (something)” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.