blow past

present singular third person blows past · participle present blowing past · past blew past · participle past blown past

1. To easily overcome or go around a safeguard or limit.

   I've just blown past my calorie limit for the day.

2. Synonym of blow over.

   “There, there, my boy!” counseled the lawyer. “Don’t get nervous. It’ll soon blow past and be forgotten, you know.”

   1918, The Saturday Evening Post

   2 more examples

   […]she has all at once, by a sort of coup de main achieved a popularity never before attained by so young a candidate for histrionic honours[…]But popularity may soon blow past

   1830 June 26, The Edinburgh Literary Journal; or Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles Lettres

   […]the evanescence of worldly things had been lost on them. They do not keep in mind sufficiently how things blow past.[…]We often feel ourselves in circumstances which appear as if they would overwhelm us. After all, they blow past. They have done so; they do so every day: when they next recur, let us remember that still they must blow past. And not only this, but we may see how useful a thing it is to learn to let them blow past. Let us take all worldly things easily

   1848 October 14, Chambers' Edinburgh Journal

   Synonyms: blow over