blow the whistle

phrase

: to call public or official attention to something (such as a wrongdoing) kept secret

—usually used with on

blew the whistle on the firm's unethical practices

Examples of blow the whistle in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Critics were mixed on the film, which follows a Facebook engineer (Mikey Madison) who leaks thousands of internal documents to a reporter (Jeremy Allen White) to blow the whistle on the company’s dark practices. — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026

No clue who was blowing the whistle the whole time, but, clearly, nobody got the message. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026

There’s a lot of skeptics in Silicon Valley who think that this is just another person in the AI safety community that is blowing the whistle. — Kelli Wessinger, Vox, 16 Sep. 2026

Kavanagh insists she was fired for blowing the whistle on improper conduct by Sky. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1938, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for blow the whistle

• abyssal
• dismissal
• epistle
• bristle
• fissile
• gristle
• missal
• missile
• nissl
• thistle