Blow great guns phrase
To be extremely windy.
Look at the road! Several trees were blown down! It must have blown great guns last night!
John must be crazy! He's gone sailing when it is blowing great guns!
When I was driving home from work, it suddenly blew great guns, and that made me fall.
The verb "blow" must be conjugated according to its tense.
The origin of this phrase is not clear.
Come out of a difficult situation without a stain on one's character
I don't understand how he can fall in shit and come out smelling like a rose.