blow one's wad
The idiom "blow one's wad" has various informal meanings, often related to spending or using up resources completely.
Definition
B2Finance
(informal)To spend all of one's money at once.
Example
- He blew his wad on a new car and now has nothing left for savings.
B2General
(informal)To use up all of one's resources, efforts, or ideas in one go.
Example
- The team blew their wad in the first half and couldn't maintain their performance in the second.
C1Vulgar
(vulgar)To ejaculate.
Similar
Terms that have similar or relatively close meanings to "blow one's wad":
shoot one's wadblow one's loadshoot one's loadbust a nutblow offblow outblow the gaffblow a gasketpull one's pudblow someone's brains outblow off steamoverplay one's handtoss offpoop outbust one's asspiss one's pantspop one's corksow one's wild oatsblow throughspill one's gutscash in one's chipsgo for broke