blow-up

Also, if life blows up even when you’ve been following the rules, it can feel like there’s no reason to “be good.”

I was hemming and hawing if I should even put this in because I hate to blow up a spot.

“So you’re taking full credit for him blowing up in the podcast world?”

In the end, the controversy over Verstappen’s tactics blew up only briefly, even if it has been a theme since he raced Lewis Hamilton for his first title in 2021.

Almost instantly, his phone “started blowing up” with a string of violent messages.