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What does fiasco mean?
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fiasco

A fiasco is a sudden or unexpected failure.

fiasco

(= debacle) a sudden and violent collapse

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Simple sentences

We'll never live this fiasco down.
No one was punished for the fiasco.
It was utter fiasco.
What a fiasco!
It was an embarrassing fiasco.

Movie subtitles

Without an entertainment permit the hotel will be a fiasco.
Not bad for a fiasco!
What a fiasco!
But you should be grateful for your fiasco.
I wonder if you learned from yesterday's fiasco.
This little dinner you have planned for tonight has got fiasco written all over it.
I see a fiasco.
This is a fiasco.
It's a pity we ever met in the first place and decided to live together - what a glorious fiasco!
On the Balkan battlefield, after the fiasco of the forth Fascist offensive, the initiative is passing over to Tito's partisans.
Why did you get involved in this fiasco?
I'd like an explanation of this latest fiasco, Brigadier.
A fiasco!
It was a fiasco. - Nonsense.
He staged that fiasco at the Tower of London.
No matter, dear friend, that fiasco calls for a celebration.
That fiasco calls for a celebration.
Not much left after my great fiasco.
What a fiasco, I'm going to be late.
Emotional fiasco and financial debacle.
Especially because it's a fiasco.
Anyone can have a fiasco now and then, but a few in a row can lead to a serious loss of confidence.
Do you know many men were fired by the CIA after the Bay of Pigs fiasco?
Especially after the last fiasco.
If it's a fiasco, it's your fault, I tell you!
It won't be a fiasco.
It'll be the greatest fiasco in Swedish theatre history.
A great fiasco.
Another fiasco, no?
Mr. Greenleaf just arrived from Naples. What a fiasco, I'm going to be late.
A total fiasco.
But from 1793, when Sir Percival Flint's miners ran back to Cornwall leaving him for dead to the famous Cambridge University fiasco of 1939.
That was a big fiasco!
It was a fiasco.

News and current affairs

In fact, following the recent currency fiasco, North Korean leaders may have become more open to economic reform than ever before.
Rather than learn from this fiasco, Klaus went on the offensive, claiming that he was a victim of a conspiracy hatched by Havel.
What does last month's trade fiasco mean?
If Europe's leaders are wise enough to choose this course, the fiasco of the French and Dutch referendums will prove to have been useful after all.
Among the vast list of unforeseen consequences springing from the US fiasco in Iraq is the vital fact that, across Latin America, anti-Americanism is on the rise and is rapidly generating myriad grim effects on the region's politics.
As a result, the EU's upcoming summit could turn into a fiasco, which may well prove lethal, because it would leave the rest of the eurozone without a strong enough financial firewall to protect it from the possibility of a Greek exit.
The doctrine according to which great powers, many of them nuclear-armed, try to stop lesser powers from acquiring nuclear weapons by force and threats of force - a fiasco in Iraq, nuclear-armed North Korea, and now Iran - has reached a dead end.
WASHINGTON, DC - China's success in establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has been widely regarded as a diplomatic fiasco for the United States.
When Putin was dragged in to cover up the mess, an ordinary failure turned into a total fiasco.
The other argument for the status quo is that a ban on tobacco might result in the same kind of fiasco as occurred during Prohibition in the US.
Iran's election fiasco seemingly confirmed for Iranian reformists a conclusion that tens of millions of Iranian citizens reached long ago - the country's Islamic government, as it exists today, is beyond rehabilitation.
But four days of discussion among world leaders resulted in a fiasco.
This is to say nothing of the fiasco surrounding the withdrawn invitation to Iran, whose buy-in will be essential for any resolution.
Stress tests have turned out to be an exercise between futility and fiasco.
His effort was a fiasco, remembered in Berlin to this day.
Blanchard should know better than to persist with this fiasco.
Moderate Israeli citizens, who had nothing to do with the flotilla fiasco, should lower their heads in shame for their government's act.
Embarrassed by the judo fiasco, he canceled all of his subsequent unscripted public appearances.
The Germans should remember the reparations fiasco of the 1920's.
Although the IMF delivered some gloomily accurate figures about the likely cost of the US housing fiasco, it played almost no role in addressing the current crisis.
It is unlikely that the Kremlin would attempt another military intervention in Kosovo (their effort in 1999 to land troops at Pristina airport was a fiasco), but it has a range of options that must give the West pause.
Given the huge financial stakes involved, achieving global consensus will be difficult, as the Copenhagen climate-change fiasco proved.

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