blow one's cover

Inadvertently give away one's secret identity, as in Mary came to the annual meeting pretending to be a shareholder and hoped no one would blow her cover . This expression uses blow in the sense of "expose or betray," a usage dating from Shakespeare's day.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Lunete	-	Welsh Mythology, Arthurian Romance
Mesud	-	Ottoman Turkish
Jasmyn	JAZ-min	English (Modern)
Bartley	['ba:tli]
Sid	[sid]
Baldev	-	Indian, Hindi