fiasco

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fi·as·co

(fē-ăs′kō)

n. pl. fi·as·coes or fi·as·cos

A complete failure.

[French, from Italian fare fiasco, to make a bottle, fail, from fiasco, bottle (perhaps translation of French bouteille, bottle, error, used by the French for linguistic errors committed by Italian actors on the 18th-century French stage), from Late Latin flascō; see flask.]

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fiasco

(fɪˈæskəʊ)

n, pl -cos or -coes

a complete failure, esp one that is ignominious or humiliating

[C19: from Italian, literally: flask; sense development obscure]

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fi•as•co

(fiˈæs koʊ or, esp. for 2, -ˈɑ skoʊ)

n., pl. -cos, -coes.

1. a complete and ignominious failure.

2. a round-bottomed wine bottle, esp. one having a basketlike covering.

[1850–55; < Italian: literally, bottle < Germanic see flask]

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Noun

fiasco - a sudden and violent collapse

debacle

collapse - a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in; "the roof is in danger of collapse"; "the collapse of the old star under its own gravity"

fiasco

noun flop, failure, disaster, ruin, mess (informal), catastrophe, rout, debacle, cock-up (Brit. slang), balls-up (taboo slang), fuck-up (offensive taboo slang), washout (informal) The party was a bit of a fiasco.

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fiasco

noun

One that fails completely:

bust, failure, loser, washout.

Informal: dud, flop, lemon.

Slang: bomb.

Translations

فَشَل تام، إخْفاق

фиаско

fiasko

fiasko

fijasko

fiaskó

algjörlega misheppnaîur

fiasco fallimento

fiaskovisiškas nepasisekimas

fiasko, pilnīga neveiksme

fiasko klęska

фиаско

fiasko

fijasko

fiyasko

фиаско

大失败

fiasco

[fɪˈæskəʊ] N (fiascos, fiascoes (pl)) → fiasco m, desastre m

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fiasco

[fiˈæskəʊ] n → fiasco m

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fiasco

n pl <-s, (US also) -es> → Fiasko nt

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fiasco

[fɪˈæskəʊ] n → fiasco

fiasco

(fiˈӕskəu) – plural fiˈascos – noun

a complete failure. The party was a fiasco.

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But it is always a terrible fiasco , and after one or two feeble flounders he crawls out again, limp and pitiable.

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The attack was a fiasco, the fighting was all over in ten minutes.

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Beyond this there was nothing in the manner of their leaving to suggest a FIASCO, or that they were not going together to visit friends.

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The whole thing was a fiasco. The last act was played to almost empty benches.

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I had spoken in a loud voice that there might be no question that our would-be terrorizers should hear me, for I was tiring of this nerve-racking fiasco. It had occurred to me, too, that the whole business was but a plan to frighten us back into the valley of death from which we had escaped, that we might be quickly disposed of by the savage creatures there.

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"I have fallen from a height, and my fiasco has made no noise.

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Freddy was at his wittiest, referring to Cecil as the "Fiasco"--family honoured pun on fiance.

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Broken bread and scraps of frozen macaroni lay upon the cloth and at the bottom of two soup-plates and a tureen; the macaroni had a tinge of tomato; and there was a crimson dram left in the tumblers, with an empty fiasco to show whence it came.

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He kicked off his shoes and began pacing his room with noiseless rapidity; not since the night of the Old Bohemian dinner to Reuben Rosenthall had Raffles exhibited such excitement in my presence; and I was not sorry at the moment to be reminded of the fiasco to which that banquet had been the prelude.

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"Well, after this fiasco I went into the bedroom and examined that also.

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"The NRC fiasco has exposed all those who tried to take political mileage out of it.

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