blow up

"We mask all our lives through high school, through education, through university, and then boom, it kind of blows up, we can't mask anymore, we're in severe burnout and we struggle mentally."

He decried Israeli aggression towards other countries in the Middle East which threatened to "blow up" the region.

Watters’ “blow up the U.N.” joke was not funny, especially in our current climate of deadly attacks on political figures by troubled men with guns.

“I’ve already reached out to him. I’m sure his phone is blowing up. I just want to make sure he’s all right,” Skubal said.

In any event, the LP was not a hit right out of the box — it didn’t start selling until “Lovin’ You” blew up as a single months after the album’s release.