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Backfiring meaning
The occurrence of a backfire. | A failure that leads to further misfortune.
Example sentences (20)
And Seattle was one of the places that heard the loud sound of that sabotage scheme backfiring.
Dillon Brooks was already an embarrassment his trash talk backfiring.
I thought he called an awful game for the most part and several questionable decisions ended up backfiring for the Broncos.
The cartoons usually see Wile E. Coyote attempting to use a product from the Acme Corporation to kill the Roadrunner, and the defining running gag of the series sees every single Acme product backfiring on Wile E. Coyote in a very painful way.
The death last year of his conservative predecessor freed the pope’s hand, experts say, but they also believe that the overreach of Vatican antagonists — who sought to box Francis in — played a part, backfiring spectacularly.
What we have to do is design how we can create this backfiring effect whereby more and more people make that decision that they won’t stand by and allow ourselves to descend into authoritarianism.
But the company’s decision to become a hydrogen producer is backfiring.
Convoys of cars, revving engines, ‘backfiring’, exhausts, racing dangerously at industrial estates, car parks, local roads and the motorway network, are treated as a private racetrack by these individuals.
I think it’s a car backfiring.
Neighbours reported hearing loud 'bangs' which they thought were sounds of a car backfiring but now fear were gun shots.
Similar to what happened in episode 4, Nagakado did not think his actions through, and they ended up backfiring.
So, they traded him to San Diego, where, at least for a brief moment, the decision to forgo the payday seemed in danger of backfiring on the Scott Boras client.
Tariffs are already backfiring on the workers and industries they’re meant to protect.
The diversion attempt looks like it is backfiring.
Watch CNN's Jim Acosta annihilate the Harris campaign for running from the media and tell me her strategy isn't backfiring.
It ended up backfiring pretty massively, though, as it was played on a huge screen at a ball in front of everyone, and Serena’s mum saw at least some of it.
Playoff experience aside, the 76ers made a series of offseason moves to improve the team — all of which ended up backfiring in a big way.
The evil Djinn has granted backfiring wishes in no less than four films to date, and here's how the entire Wishmaster franchise stacks up.
The temps have dropped which is adiding in direct line construction and backfiring operations.
And despite their massive political capital, it seems like neither is able to prevent its actions from backfiring.