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fiasco
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1855, theater slang for "a failure in performance;" by 1862 it had acquired the general sense of "any ignominious failure or dismal flop," on or off the stage. It comes via the French phrase fiare fiasco "turn out a failure" (19c.), from Italian far fiasco ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A fiasco is a typical Italian style of bottle , usually with a round body and bottom, partially or completely covered with a close-fitting straw basket . The basket is typically made of sala , a swamp weed , sun-dried and blanched with sulfur . The basket ...
Usage examples of fiasco.
He might think she was a ditzy bimbo, but Charmaine was an astute businesswoman, despite her recent loan fiasco.
AID had planned this fiasco, from the first slowboats to the retrobreeding program that produced not just the Neanderthals, but a ready-made Cenozoic ecology as well.
Shires wondered if Durgan had heard of the fiasco in which he had figured.
Recent history in controlling the fallout from Ervil Lebaron, Mark Hofmann, Paul Singer, Evan Mecham, and Bruce Longo told the Church leadership that their safest position was to let this fiasco pass on its own.
After the fiasco of the attempt of Major Stevens and Captain Best in Holland to get in touch with the German conspirators, the British were somewhat skeptical of the whole business, and when Bryans pressed Hassell for some reliable information as to whom he was speaking for the German envoy became cagey.
Each impactor and each launch had to meet exacting specification and schedule constraints to make the implosion as symmetrical as physics would allow, or the biggest fiasco in human history would result.
Miguel Lamer, in spite of the Branson fiasco, had thought he could retrieve it with the assignment of two Stage Two agents.
Characteristically in a way, the movie was a megaflop a snowballing fiasco.
After that fiasco with Moise and Avram walking away with the soldiers, I was worried someone else might try to pull a fast one.
Then I drove myself home from Pimlico to Portobello in my purple Fiasco.
While others look at art or read books or surrender to serious music, my mind just razzes me about money, Selina, hard-ons, the Fiasco.
I was counting on my brother being unwilling to confess the Silver Scybalum fiasco to Alistair Drummond.
FLEEING THE ILL-FATED FIASCO IN THE PALACE, DAMRA and her husband Griffith had made their way through the slumbering city without difficulty.
Lord God, that was all this fiasco needed: trouble with Midshipman Vax Holser.
In the fiasco at Chancellorsville the son of a bitch had blatantly misinterpreted the obvious at every turn.