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to blow one's load

to blow one's load

9.9
Informal and rude way to use up all your energy or resources at once
  • idiom
  • Offensive
translation icon : gastarse (informal)
  • Don't blow your load before the big presentation!

Examples

  • He blew his load at the beginning of the debate and had nothing left to say.

  • She tends to blow her load all at once when she's excited about a new project.

  • The team blew their load in the first half and couldn't keep up later.

  • He blew his load on the first few questions.

  • He didn't want to blow his load too early in the race, so he conserved his energy.

  • After months of planning, the team blew their load all at once during the presentation.

  • Be careful not to blow your load of resources before the final stretch of the project.

Synonyms

to poop out
vsto blow one's load
  • Informal
1 8.4

To become very tired or stop working

involves actively using all energy at once rather than failing from tiredness
to shoot one's load
vsto blow one's load
  • Offensive
9.9

Use all your energy at once and have none left in a rude way

uses resources prematurely, often revealing everything too soon
to shoot one's bolt
vsto blow one's load
  • Informal
8.8

To use up all your energy or chances

is used when resources are expended prematurely rather than in a planned final effort
to blow one's wad
vsto blow one's load
  • Informal
9.9

To spend all your money at once

applies more broadly to energy or resources, not only money

Antonyms

to conserve
63 3.4

Protect something from harm or waste by using it carefully

How Exhausted

to burn out
24 4.7
to blow one's load
  • Offensive
9.9
to use up
69 2.7

Surface Forms

blow one's load infinitive
blowing one's load present participle
blows one's load third person singular
blew one's load past
blown one's load past participle

Morphology

blow + one + loads

The phrase's primary vulgar sense (to ejaculate) and the extended sense (to use up all one's resources at once) are idiomatic and not compositionally derivable from 'blow' + 'one' + 'load' by a B1 learner. Both senses rely on metaphorical or culture-specific slang usage rather than predictable semantic composition, so knowing the parts would not reliably give the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Blow one's load may come from the picture of a gun or cannon firing all its load in one blow, leaving it empty after the shot. So the phrase came to mean 'use up everything at once' and, in more vulgar speech, to 'ejaculate' because both ideas are about emptying out.