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Definition of fiasco in English: fiasconounPlural fiascos fɪˈaskəʊfiˈæskoʊ A complete failure, especially a ludicrous or humiliating one. his plans turned into a fiasco Example sentencesExamples - When we see true ‘dictatorship,’ as opposed to yet another permutation of Parliamentary fiascos, we will see it in the eyes of the hysterical, not from their mouths.
- It was a fiasco and a disaster, but the courage of the soldiers impressed even the Russians.
- The paper was forced to publish a humiliating front page apology for the fiasco the following day.
- A string of fiascos define Surrey's infamy in the media: home invasions, racial tension, murders, drugs, and a horribly misguided school board.
- Of course, there is also the parade of endless cartoons, strangely addictive infomercials, public access fiascos and creepy children's programming when the movie selection gets too boring.
- Let us hope they can avoid the procurement fiascos of the old JPS program by implementing revised procurement procedures for contract awards (as suggested herein).
- The first is that the Americans attacked before they were really ready, either because of the diplomatic fiascos with Turkey and in the UN, or due to pressure to beat the summer heat.
- At the start of the new millennium, the corporate world witnessed major fiascos and ethical blunders.
- If Namibia was a real constitutional democracy, President Nujoma should have been called to clear up scandals, fiascos and debacles that have characterized, mainly, the last five years of his rule.
- Remembering the Government's record on previous computer purchase fiascos this is scheduled to be another expensive disaster.
- The recent fiasco over parking charges has demonstrated their arrogance and incompetence.
- I hope none of you were ensnared in the Comair-USAir fiascos!
- If there are any baking fiascos this year with the bread I'm going to quit this tradition and just start making bunnies out of Rice Krispy treats.
- Those inclined to believe in the ‘guiding hand’ of the Creator would doubtless deduce that he is squarely on the prince's side too, since the lecture fortuitously coincided with two more GM fiascos.
- By contrast, Churchill was keen to distance himself from various amphibious fiascos, especially the defeat at Dieppe in August 1942, which nobody can remember ordering.
- Saturday's losing team, meanwhile, apologised for one of the biggest soccer fiascos Germany has ever suffered, expressing shame and remorse for only their second ever World Cup qualifying defeat.
- Scotland Yard immediately launched an internal inquiry into the handling of the cases against both butlers which are estimated to have cost £2m and ended in one of the biggest legal fiascos in recent years.
- Also, it was about hearing stories of people who have failed or in their time success never happened, but in fact their fiascos and disasters turned into triumphs that few people could have expected.
- Large events such as the Olympics and Commonwealth Games are often plagued by budget overruns, slack ticket sales and venue fiascos but bad publicity about Manchester has been notably absent.
Synonyms failure, disaster, catastrophe, debacle, shambles, farce, mess, wreck, ruin, ruination, blunder, botch, abortion informal flop, washout, dud, hash, lead balloon, foul-up, screw-up, fail British informal pig's ear, cock-up, car crash North American informal snafu Australian/New Zealand informal fizzer vulgar slang fuck-up, balls-up
Origin Mid 19th century: from Italian, literally 'bottle, flask', in the phrase far fiasco, literally 'make a bottle', figuratively 'fail in a performance': the reason for the figurative sense is unexplained. A fiasco is a ridiculous or humiliating failure. The word was borrowed from Italian in the 19th century. In that language it meant originally ‘a bottle’, but the phrase far fiasco, literally ‘make a bottle’, was used in the theatre to mean ‘fail in a performance’. In medieval English a flask (Middle English) was a cask or skin for holding liquor. The word came from medieval Latin flasca (along with LME flagon) but the 17th-century sense ‘glass container’ was influenced by Italian fiasco.
Definition of fiasco in US English: fiasconounfiˈæskoʊfēˈaskō A thing that is a complete failure, especially in a ludicrous or humiliating way. his plans turned into a fiasco Example sentencesExamples - The recent fiasco over parking charges has demonstrated their arrogance and incompetence.
- At the start of the new millennium, the corporate world witnessed major fiascos and ethical blunders.
- If Namibia was a real constitutional democracy, President Nujoma should have been called to clear up scandals, fiascos and debacles that have characterized, mainly, the last five years of his rule.
- I hope none of you were ensnared in the Comair-USAir fiascos!
- Saturday's losing team, meanwhile, apologised for one of the biggest soccer fiascos Germany has ever suffered, expressing shame and remorse for only their second ever World Cup qualifying defeat.
- Let us hope they can avoid the procurement fiascos of the old JPS program by implementing revised procurement procedures for contract awards (as suggested herein).
- If there are any baking fiascos this year with the bread I'm going to quit this tradition and just start making bunnies out of Rice Krispy treats.
- Also, it was about hearing stories of people who have failed or in their time success never happened, but in fact their fiascos and disasters turned into triumphs that few people could have expected.
- By contrast, Churchill was keen to distance himself from various amphibious fiascos, especially the defeat at Dieppe in August 1942, which nobody can remember ordering.
- Those inclined to believe in the ‘guiding hand’ of the Creator would doubtless deduce that he is squarely on the prince's side too, since the lecture fortuitously coincided with two more GM fiascos.
- Large events such as the Olympics and Commonwealth Games are often plagued by budget overruns, slack ticket sales and venue fiascos but bad publicity about Manchester has been notably absent.
- Scotland Yard immediately launched an internal inquiry into the handling of the cases against both butlers which are estimated to have cost £2m and ended in one of the biggest legal fiascos in recent years.
- A string of fiascos define Surrey's infamy in the media: home invasions, racial tension, murders, drugs, and a horribly misguided school board.
- The first is that the Americans attacked before they were really ready, either because of the diplomatic fiascos with Turkey and in the UN, or due to pressure to beat the summer heat.
- Of course, there is also the parade of endless cartoons, strangely addictive infomercials, public access fiascos and creepy children's programming when the movie selection gets too boring.
- The paper was forced to publish a humiliating front page apology for the fiasco the following day.
- When we see true ‘dictatorship,’ as opposed to yet another permutation of Parliamentary fiascos, we will see it in the eyes of the hysterical, not from their mouths.
- It was a fiasco and a disaster, but the courage of the soldiers impressed even the Russians.
- Remembering the Government's record on previous computer purchase fiascos this is scheduled to be another expensive disaster.
Synonyms failure, disaster, catastrophe, debacle, shambles, farce, mess, wreck, ruin, ruination, blunder, botch, abortion
Origin Mid 19th century: from Italian, literally ‘bottle, flask’, in the phrase far fiasco, literally ‘make a bottle’, figuratively ‘fail in a performance’: the reason for the figurative sense is unexplained. |