"blow the lid off" meaning in English

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      "form": "blows the lid off",
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    },
    {
      "form": "blowing the lid off",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "blew the lid off",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blown the lid off",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1979 April 28, John Graczak, “The Sacred and the Profane”, in Gay Community News, page 16:",
          "text": "Her presence forces churchpeople to consider on what grounds gay relationships can be sanctioned within the community. This question blows the lid off of notions of the special sacredness of heterosexual monogamy.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To uncover (a secret or scandal)."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "uncover",
          "uncover"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To uncover (a secret or scandal)."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "lift the lid"
        }
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        "idiomatic"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "tirar de la manta"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "blow the lid off"
}

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      "form": "blows the lid off",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "blowing the lid off",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "blew the lid off",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blown the lid off",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    {
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          "ref": "1979 April 28, John Graczak, “The Sacred and the Profane”, in Gay Community News, page 16:",
          "text": "Her presence forces churchpeople to consider on what grounds gay relationships can be sanctioned within the community. This question blows the lid off of notions of the special sacredness of heterosexual monogamy.",
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        "To uncover (a secret or scandal)."
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        "(idiomatic) To uncover (a secret or scandal)."
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
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      "word": "tirar de la manta"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blow the lid off"
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