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 Blow a Cloud.Blow Out (A). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Blow Me (an oath).
 
You be blowed (an oath), a play on the word Dash me, which is a euphemism for a more offensive oath.   1
        “‘Well, if you won’t stand a pint,’ quoth the tall man, ‘I will, that’s all, and blow temperance.’”—Kingsley: Alton Locke, chap. ii.
 


 Blow a Cloud.Blow Out (A). 

 
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