blow a hole through

English

Verb

blow a hole through (third-person singular simple present blows a hole through, present participle blowing a hole through, simple past blew a hole through, past participle blown a hole through)

1. (idiomatic) To destroy the integrity or cohesion of.
   • 2012, Jennifer Allee, A Wild Goose Chase Christmas:

     That one small confession to a man she barely knew blew a hole through her emotional dam and everything she'd held back for the last week flooded out.

   • 2017, John Strawson, Law after Ground Zero:

     'By taking down the towers, Sept 11 blew a hole through the errors of the past.

   • 2020, Thomas Mullen, Midnight Atlanta:

     Unless the letters were fake, they blew a hole through Martha's story.

   • 2022 December 7, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time‎^[1]:

     By rolling into the city that Vladimir Putin still claimed as his own, the leader of Ukraine would blow a hole through the stories of conquest and imperial glory that Russian propagandists had been using for months to justify the war.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow,‎ hole,‎ through.