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
Toril	-	Norwegian
Timaios	-	Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek
Delphine	['delfi:n]
NurgÜL	-	Turkish
Orval	['ɔ:vəl]
Silvija	-	Croatian, Slovene