(informal, AU) to add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
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He had recently exchanged his old bike for a new, three speed racer, which cost a bomb and the weekly payment were becoming difficult, with the dangers of repossession.
Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb!
It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing.
So Hall quit the job, turned in the company car and went to Chicago, where as a stand-up comic he bombed several times before he was discovered by Nancy Wilson, who took him on the road — where he bombed again before a room of Republicans—and then to Los Angeles.
Essendon was bombed in the early hours of 3 September 1916; a few houses and part of the church were destroyed, and two sisters killed.
She was the reason why he bombed the interview. He just couldn′t seem to get her out of his mind.
Carmen:[...] Then it bombed and it bombed badly. After a few more issues I asked Mike what was happening and he said, “I′m trying everything I can but it′s just not working.” So I took him off the book and he left. That was it.
15 May: US jets bombed air-defence sites north of Mosul, as the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US and Britain of intentionally bombing civilian targets. (AP)
Italy had bombed cities in the Ethiopian war; Italy and Germany had bombed civilians in the Spanish Civil War; at the start of World War II German planes dropped bombs on Rotterdam in Holland, Coventry in England, and elsewhere.
A pillar of iron[...]which if you had struck, would make[...]a great bomb in the chamber beneath.
The process consisted in preparing the metal by metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium metal in a steel bomb.
Normally very controlled, he dropped the F-bomb and cursed the paparazzi.
It was an ordinary speech, until the president dropped a bomb: he would be retiring for medical reasons.
Our fabulous new crumpets have been selling like a bomb.
The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb.
The kids cost a bomb to feed, they eat all the time.
‘Not on it, Sal — under it. Presents!’ As we eventually staggered up to bed, Sally said to me, ‘I hope to God he′s not been spending a bomb on presents, too.[...]’
‘You′ve already spent a bomb!’
When Kiley presented Blackpool with the custom shotgun, he said, “This must′ve cost a bomb.”
make a bomb; cost a bomb
After two weeks of driving it she knew the car was a bomb and she did not need anyone saying it to her. The only one allowed to pick on her car was her. Piece of crap car[...]
We′ve got the money and it just feels ridiculous to let you drive around in that old bomb.
Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection.
The movie was a bomb, but it put the band before an even larger audience.
The movie was a bomb and so was my next film, Balboa, in which I played a scheming real estate tycoon.
Projection problems plagued Countess′ London premiere on January 5, 1967, Jerry Epstein recalled, and it was perhaps an omen, for reaction by critics afterward was swift and immediate: The film was a bomb.
If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.
During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.