destroy a basis of what is believed or accepted by many people
And now, it's time to explode a myth, unearth the truth, drive home a point, flush out the little rascal, expose, spell out, elucidate and unravel the mystery... WebC
To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them." WebC
Every so often commentators come clean with the public and explode a myth that they and their colleagues have been spending millions of dollars and years and years to create. WebC