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Meaning backfire meaning

What does backfire mean?
Definitions in simple English

backfire Verb

— If an engine backfires, it experiences a premature ignition of fuel or exhaust gases, making a popping sound. — If something backfires, it failed in a manner that brings an opposite and undesirable effect to what was intend. His attempt to make money by importing luxury cars backfired horribly when fuel prices tripled.

backfire Noun

— A backfire is a premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in the wrong direction. — A backfire is an explosion in the exhaust passages of an .

backfire

— verb set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire — noun a miscalculation that recoils on its maker — noun a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine — noun a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path — verb come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble — verb emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire My old car backfires all the time — noun (= blowback) the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired

Synonyms backfire synonyms

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backfire English » English

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Conjugation backfire conjugation

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backfire · verb

Examples backfire examples

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Simple sentences

Tom thinks the plan may backfire.

Movie subtitles

Start a backfire! Retreat!
Henshaw could rig it to backfire like a tank.
Car backfire.
Her little trick will backfire on her.
Confidence is high. Flight profile suggests Soviet backfire bombers.
Even if your intentions are good, it can backfire drastically.
Why? - If there were widespread discussion, it might backfire.
Just a backfire.
Sounding like a backfire, it misses the car completely.
Backfiring, it's just a truck backfire, not to worry about it.
We could create a backfire, an explosive force set off just in front of the Soliton Wave.
The good news is we can catch it. The bad news is that in order to set up this backfire, - we have to be in front of it.
This time, we rig the table so his device will backfire on him.
Yeah, but it won't backfire.
Well, I heard something, like backfire from an automobile.
Backfire it out!
It might have been a backfire.
Scared this whole Jekyll-Hyde idea. is going to backfire and make a psycho out of me.
The reason we selected Number Six - a matter of credibility without which the plan might backfire.
Or the affair could backfire!
He said he thought it came from the outside, a backfire or something.
It may backfire on you, have you forgotten all that I've teached you?
Flight profile suggests Soviet backfire bombers.
Be careful, Michael. This may backfire.
If there were widespread discussion, it might backfire.
It could backfire.
Particularly after the backfire on Jerry's publicity stunt with the leopard.
This one won't backfire, darling.
It is, there's a backfire.
I mean, they can backfire on you-- knock you lower than where you started.
Sounding like a backfire, it misses the car completely. Frame 161, Kennedy stops waving as he hears something.
This paw sucks. Okay, I'll make a wish that can't backfire.
Steve, what I'm saying is, even if he's got a record and we can convince a judge, this thing could still backfire.

News and current affairs

Though QE might work in a debtor economy with a flexible financial system like the US, it could backfire in a creditor economy with a conservative financial system.
Recent history provides convincing evidence that policies based on a misrepresenting reality backfire.
Even seemingly purposeful projects can seriously backfire: only a few years ago, Europe's well-intentioned efforts to stimulate renewables resulted in a solar energy bubble of macroeconomic proportions.
As a result, the entire discussion could easily backfire.
Right now, the European Central Bank worries that continued expansionary fiscal policy will backfire.
Such an attempt to secularize the state might backfire, however, as the regime could become even more vulnerable to accusations that it is an American lackey.
Neglecting the problem of entry into the labor market could backfire by increasing pressure for more public expenditure just when governments should start reducing the huge public debts accumulated during the recession.
Tough emission standards or regulations against child labor can backfire if they lead to fewer jobs and greater poverty.
This is false and it could backfire.
This strategy may have prevented the dramatic fall in popularity experienced by other governments in the middle of the Great Recession, but sooner or later will backfire.
Yet Putin may be overplaying the macho card so excessively that it could backfire and contribute to his isolation from Russia's urban and more educated voters.
Moreover, this approach could easily backfire.
But its response - essentially just more quantitative easing - could backfire, exacerbating imbalances and generating serious financial instability.
But his tactic could easily backfire.
But there are three reasons why such a move could backfire.
That brings us to the uncomfortable truth about America's politically inspired China bashing: It will backfire.
The law of unintended consequences dictates that this effort to deny ambiguity to Taiwanese activists could backfire, and instead leave mainland leaders without room to maneuver if Taiwan does attempt to revise the status quo.
Similarly, central bank independence may be a great idea when monetary instability is the binding constraint, but it will backfire where the real challenge is poor competitiveness.

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