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blow something offNorth American informal 1Ignore or make light of something: he tries to blow it off and pretend it doesn’t matter...- He sometimes blows off community groups, things like that.
- And when a married woman blows off her commitments to her husband and her children in favor of an affair with a married man, who is to blame?
- Unsurprisingly, he blows off his friend's demand for payment.
1.1Fail to attend something: Ivy blew off class...- But first, I must prepare that last class, for the good students who did not blow it off and leave early.
- And so, while ‘treating the vote as a duty’ may, in some people's eyes, ‘makes us less likely to see it for the precious right that it is,’ so does blowing it off for a hairdressing appointment or getting to the pub a few minutes earlier.
- Nina's new guy is way more enticing than 9 a.m. calculus... but can she blow off class again?
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