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What does 'blew the whistle' mean?

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9y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

This idiom gives you the image of someone blowing a whistle, like at a sports game, to alert a judge that a player has just done something wrong. It means that the person has alerted authorities about wrongdoing in their workplace or another situation.

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