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“Put on blast”? Never heard this idiom.
by avalys 4y ago
“Put on blast”?
Never heard this idiom.
- iepathos 4y agoI think it comes from british slang where to blast someone means to exclaim annoyance at them. May have heard the exclamation like "oh blast it" when something goes wrong.
- sammalloy 4y agoThanks. I’ve never heard this in the states.
- blamazon 4y agoI've only ever heard it in the episode "I will put your kids on blast" of the podcast Harmontown: https://old.reddit.com/r/Harmontown/comments/80z0w6/episode_278_i_will_put_your_kids_on_blast/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Harmontown/comments/80z0w6/episode_...
- SoftTalker 4y agoDon't watch Family Guy then? "Blast!" is one of Stewie's favorite expletives.
- detaro 4y agohttps://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+someone+on+blast https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+someone+on+blast
- version_five 4y agoput me on blast on MTV "Yeah, he's cute, but I think he's married to Kim, hee-hee!" https://genius.com/Eminem-the-real-slim-shady-lyric https://genius.com/Eminem-the-real-slim-shady-lyric From an eminem song, from ~the year 2000. That's the only place I'd heard it before
- optimalsolver 4y agoI think it was from urban slang in the 90s.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoA bit obscure for the US, but fits well as a pun when the topic is NASA and JPL.
- faizshah 4y agoCommon American (and online) slang meaning calling out someone. I believe it originates from Chicago or the Midwest but it got popularized on social media like a lot of other slang in the 2010s and now is pretty much used everywhere especially among Gen Z.
- kfajdsl 4y agoAs a Gen Z, TIL "put on blast" is not just a normal common phrase
- Maursault 4y agoAn informal definition of "blast" is a severe verbal reprimand, and it is unlikely you've never heard it used that way because it originates in the US in the late 19th century. "Put on blast" means to embarrass publicly by admonishing, and also originates in the US, but is much more recent. Compare to "put on full blast," (sound familiar?) which has a different but related meaning, but like all these uses originate from Old English blæst "a blowing, a breeze, puff of wind," and later, blast furnace, the idea of forcing air to increase combustion for smelting iron.
- geuis 4y ago
- kitrose 4y agoCommon phrase in the military going back at least 15 years. Suppose “putting on blast” is more common in that context?
- Rapzid 4y agoYeah, not that new and has wide popularity.
- dylan604 4y agoOther than the tone of vile disdain, it's not unheard of for phrases to disappear from everyday usage.
- VyseofArcadia 4y agoAnother sign of getting old is it's not just the whippersnappers using slang I don't understand, now it's showing up it news headlines too. Also, current slang in headlines seems like an odd choice anyway. I get there's a not-great pun there and all, but the article doesn't seem like it's written for an audience that already knows what "on blast" means.
- bearmode 4y agoYou're > 22 years out of date on that one then, a google search showed 'on blast' being used since at least the year 2000