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whistle
(redirected from blowing the whistle on)

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whistle
1. a device for making a shrill high-pitched sound by means of air or steam under pressure
2. Music any pipe that is blown down its end and produces sounds on the principle of a flue pipe, usually having as a mouthpiece a fipple cut in the side


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He eventually filed suit claiming he was retaliated against for blowing the whistle on the fraud.
As the British journalist and feature writer Graham Turner put it at that first gathering: 'If we are blowing the whistle on others, let us make sure our own whistles are clean.
Felt's motives in blowing the whistle on Watergate were, in all likelihood, a mixture of genuine moral outrage and personal opportunism.
 
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