Idiom
put someone on blast
Meaning
To embarrass by publicly denouncing or exposing, especially by using social media.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“She put him on blast for being late again.”
“The customer was so angry about the bad service that she put the company on blast on social media.”
“After discovering the company had been hiding the truth for months, the whistleblower decided to put the entire executive team on blast in a public interview.”
Examples
simple
“She put him on blast for being late again.”
contextual
“The customer was so angry about the bad service that she put the company on blast on social media.”
complex
“After discovering the company had been hiding the truth for months, the whistleblower decided to put the entire executive team on blast in a public interview.”
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