Slow Blow

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
SB
Pronunciation
/sloʊ bloʊ/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. Some staff have been slow to blow the whistle on projects they oversaw, not wanting to embarrass host governments, or nervous of more senior loan-pushers.
  2. Hedonism and frivolity will diffuse hell through all our days When his wife dragged up his infidelities, he was not slow in getting a blow in her flirtations.
  3. The notion that antioxidant supplements such as vitamins C and E could slow ageing has been dealt a blow by a scientific study showing that the theory behind the advice is wrong.
  4. My daddy told me slow down, boy, you goin to blow it.
  5. However, if Chinese demand does slow, rising iron ore orders from other emerging markets across Latin America and Africa are likely to cushion the blow, he says.

Other meanings of SB