blow it

I was sure they were going to blow it in some fundamental way, and of course they did, but the deepest way that I could characterize what they did was that they were just kind of making stuff up.

It takes longer to build something than it does to blow it up.

"He can't understand what it's like to have a summer job because he was handed millions on a silver platter, only to blow it."

And can you imagine the backlash if he were brought in to pitch in that very pressurized situation and then proceeded to blow it?

But, sometimes, the tire doesn’t blow — it explodes.