blow upon

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

1. To defame, discredit; make someone the subject of a scandal.

   'I'm afraid,' said the Jew, 'that he may say something which will get us into trouble.' 'That's very likely,' returned Sikes with a malicious grin. 'You're blowed upon, Fagin.'

   1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “chapter 13”, in Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC

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   And thenne syre Gawayne made many men to blowe vpon syr launcelot / And all at ones they called hym fals recreaunt knyght. "And then Sir Gawaine made many men to blow upon Sir Launcelot; and all at once they called him false recreant knight."

   1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter xij, leaf 409r

2. datedinformalTo inform against.

   a lady's maid whose character had been blown upon

   1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC

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   How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys.

   1811, Charles Lamb, On the Tragedies of Shakespeare Considered with Reference to their Fitness for Stage Representation

   If it wos so, which I still don't say it is (for I will not prewaricate to you, sir), let that there boy keep his father's place, and take care of his mother; don't blow upon that boy's father — do not do it, sir — and let that father go into the line of the reg'lar diggin', and make amends for what he would have undug […]

   1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

3. To take the bloom or freshness off something.