Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - fiasco
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Fiasco
fiasco
I. noun (plural -coes) Etymology: French, from Italian, from fare ~, literally, to make a bottle Date: circa 1854 a complete failure II. noun (plural -coes; also fiaschi) Etymology: Italian, from Late Latin flasco bottle — more at flask Date: 1887 bottle, flask; especially a bulbous long-necked straw-covered bottle for wine
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n. (pl. -os) a ludicrous or humiliating failure or breakdown (orig. in a dramatic or musical performance); an ignominious result. Etymology: It., = bottle (with unexplained allusion): see FLASK ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. провал, неудача, фиаско the new play was a fiasco —- новая пьеса провалилась the conference ended in a fiasco —- конференция закончилась провалом (фиаско) 2. оплетенная бутылка (для итальянского вина) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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(fiascos) If you describe an event or attempt to do something as a fiasco, you are emphasizing that it fails completely. The blame for the Charleston fiasco did not lie with him... It was a bit of a fiasco. = debacle N-COUNT: usu with supp c darkgreen]emphasis ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n an event that is completely unsuccessful, in a way that is very embarrassing or disappointing (The first lecture I ever gave was a complete fiasco.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1855, theater slang for "a failure," by 1862 acquired the general sense of any dismal flop, on or off the stage. Via Fr. phrase fiare fiasco "turn out a failure," from It. far fiasco "suffer a complete breakdown in performance," lit. "make a bottle," from fiasco "bottle," from L.L. flasco, flasconem (see flask). The reason for all this is utterly obscure today, but "the usual range of fanciful theories has been advanced" [Ayto]. My utterly unqualified guess is that it deliberately has no connection to the meaning, but is based in stage superstition of euphemistic avoidance of a terrifying prospect by wrapping it in an unrelated term. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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