fiasco
Americannoun
plural
fiascos, fiascoes-
a complete and ignominious failure.
- Synonyms:
- bomb, flop, debacle, catastrophe, disaster
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a round-bottomed glass flask for wine, especially Chianti, fitted with a woven, protective raffia basket that also enables the bottle to stand upright.
noun
Etymology
Origin of fiasco
1850–55; < Italian: literally, bottle < Germanic ( flask 1 ); sense “failure” from Italian phrase far fiasco to fail, literally, to make a bottle, idiom of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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The whole fiasco came to light after our recent raid in Venezuela, when Anthropic reportedly inquired after the fact if another Silicon Valley company involved in the operation, Palantir, had used Claude.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s hard for us mortals to know what that’s like, to have the burden to always win, and anything less is labeled a fiasco.
The foam fiasco was just one of the first hiccups since JPMorgan opened a bar inside a Manhattan office building.
After the fiasco with Chapek, Disney turns to someone with a track record of successful succession planning at Morgan Stanley: James Gorman.
From Los Angeles Times
The Partition of India in August 1947 was a colossal, and very British, fiasco.
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