blow the doors off

verb

To be much more important or impressive than.

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Meanings

verbblow 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)

present singular third person blows the doors off · participle present blowing the doors off · past blew the doors off · participle past blown the doors off

  1. idiomatictransitiveTo be much more important or impressive than.

    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.

    2019 July 25, Vicki Dean, “Josh Blue on social media, improvisation and more”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune
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APA

blow the doors off. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blow%20the%20doors%20off

MLA

“blow the doors off.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blow%20the%20doors%20off. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blow the doors off,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blow%20the%20doors%20off.

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