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phrase [VERB inflects]If something that you have planned blows up in your face, it goes wrong unexpectedly, with the result that you suffer. Can't you see this could blow up in your face? See full dictionary entry for faceExamples of 'blow up in sb's face' in a sentenceblow up in sb's face And, on publication, they blow up in the government's face.Plus, there's a serious risk it would all blow up in your face.But even that relationship threatens to blow up in her face...It will blow up in your face.It could prove inspired - or just as easily blow up in his face.Everything could blow up in your face.Over time, between crises, it forgets that local government finance can blow up in its face.Don't be tempted to get pregnant 'by accident', as that could blow up in your face.It demonstrated his supreme confidence that the climax of his post-athletic career would not blow up in his face.Contests are fraught with legal complexity and, if they're managed improperly, can blow up in a company's face. |