blow someone's cover
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To reveal that someone's behavior, situation, or identity has been fabricated or deliberately misrepresented for an ulterior motive.
verb
To reveal that one has fabricated or deliberately misrepresented one's own behavior, situation, or identity for an ulterior motive.
Example Sentences
- "Iskander's role as a G.A.M. operative was secret—until I unwittingly blew his cover that day."
- "Others have tried to blow his cover: George Galloway, a left-wing British politician and supporter of the Palestinian cause, published Mr. Mahmood’s photo on his website in 2006 and accused Mr. Mahmood of disguising himself as an Arab businessman and trying to entice him to make anti-Semitic comments over lunch."
- "[O]ne of her adopted brothers said that she had asked him not to reveal that she is white. "She took me aside and just told me not to blow her cover," Ezra Dolezal, one of her African American adopted siblings, told KREM-TV."
- "This spy film purports to be inspired by the true story of Kim Philby (1912-1988), a British intelligence officer and Soviet spy during the 1940s and '50s who gained international notoriety when he blew his cover and defected to the USSR in 1963."
Inflected Forms
Phrases
blow up someone's spot
give the game away
Frequently Paired Words
blow up someone's spot
give the game away