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by freedomben 2304 days ago
What do you mean by, "Blow Red Hat?"
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Sorry, en_GB. "Blow" something here does not mean what most people would translate it to, ie a sexual act.

"Blow that" or in this case "blow RH" here means the object of the phrase is not wanted. It is a reasonably polite way of putting some emphasis on saying "that's not for me." A more aggressively emphatic idiom could be "fuck that" or "fuck RH".

If you heard me actually speak it, instead of type it would probably make sense! I should probably lay off the idia and fall into line with generic en_*.

Bugger that!

Haha, no worries, thanks for the explanation :-)