fiasco

(fē-ăs'kō, -ä'skō)
n., pl., -coes, or -cos.
A complete failure.

[French, from Italian fare fiasco, to make a bottle, fail, from fiasco, bottle (perhaps translation of French bouteille, bottle, error, used by the French for linguistic errors committed by Italian actors on the 18th-century French stage), from Late Latin flascō. See flask.]

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noun

One that fails completely: bust, failure, loser, washout. Informal dud, flop, lemon. Slang bomb. See thrive/fail/exist.

n

Definition: catastrophe
Antonyms: advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, miracle, success, wonder

[fee-YAHS-koh; fee-YAHS-kee] Italian for "flask," the word fiasco is most often connected with the squat, round-bottomed, straw-covered bottle containing cheaper wine from the chianti region. The straw covering not only helps the bottle sit upright, but protects the thin, fragile glass. Fiaschi are seldom seen today because the cost of hand-wrapping each flask for cheaper wines has become prohibitive, and the more expensive wines with aging potential need bottles that can be laid on their sides.

IN BRIEF: A complete or humiliating failure.

The whole project was a fiasco because it collapsed.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - fiasko

Nederlands (Dutch)
fiasco (mislukking), (wijn)fles

Français (French)
n. - fiasco

Deutsch (German)
n. - Fiasko

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - φιάσκο, παταγώδης αποτυχία

Italiano (Italian)
fiasco

Português (Portuguese)
n. - fiasco (m)

Русский (Russian)
провал, неудача

Español (Spanish)
n. - fiasco, fracaso

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fiasko

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
惨败, 大失败

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 慘敗, 大失敗

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 대실패

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 大失敗

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) إخفاق تام‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כישלון, מפלה, פיאסקו‬

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