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whistle
(redirected from blown 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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When the coalition pulled its support from board member David Tokofsky because he has blown the whistle on district incompetence and crooked deals, Young still went ahead and endorsed him.
When POGO used the FCA to file suit in 1996, they asked Bob Berman and Bob Spier, another government worker who had blown the whistle on oil royalty underpayments, if they wanted to join in the suit.
We have blown the whistle on his political shenanigans, his efforts to raid the public treasury and his blistering insults about people whose religion differs from his own.
 
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