Timeline for What does "be blown upon" mean there?
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| Sep 27, 2023 at 8:57 | vote | accept | philphil | ||
| Sep 27, 2023 at 7:20 | answer | added | Joachim | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 26, 2023 at 21:57 | comment | added | TimR on some device | @MichaelHarvey Can't remember where, but I remember reading something like scandal alights upon a person like flies upon festering sores. | |
| Sep 26, 2023 at 20:57 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | @TimR - One can be touched by scandal. Affected, marked, stigmatised, etc. Who knows where these 1890s informal usages came from? | |
| Sep 26, 2023 at 20:10 | comment | added | Tupelo Thistlehead | I had only heard this metaphor used in the opposite extreme as in "whiff of scandal" collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/whiff-of-scandal But in that context, scandal is not inferred. As in, "He has a righteous reputation; never even whiffed". | |
| Sep 26, 2023 at 20:09 | comment | added | TimR on some device | @MichaelHarvey Anything to do with flies laying eggs? | |
| Sep 26, 2023 at 20:05 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | Blown upon by something. Scandal, shame, disgrace, etc. | |
| Sep 26, 2023 at 20:03 | comment | added | TimR on some device | @MichaelHarvey Is it a truncated form of "blown upon by the breath of slander"? | |
| Sep 26, 2023 at 19:15 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 26, 2023 at 18:59 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | Blown upon. Made the subject of a scandal. His reputation has been blown upon, means has been the subject of talk wherein something derogatory was hinted at or even asserted. Blown upon by the breath of slander. | |
| Sep 26, 2023 at 17:56 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | Obsolete: has a ruined reputation. | |
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