单词 | fiasco |
释义 | fiasco /fee as"koh/ or, esp. for 2, /-ah"skoh/, n. , pl. fiascos, fiascoes. 1. a complete and ignominious failure. 2. a round-bottomed glass flask for wine, esp. Chianti, fitted with a woven, protective raffia basket that also enables the bottle to stand upright. [1850-55; < It: lit., bottle < Gmc (see FLASK1); sense "failure" from It phrase far fiasco to fail, lit., to make a bottle, idiom of uncert. orig.] Syn. 1. disaster, catastrophe, debacle, flop, bomb. |
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