0 (of a plan etc) to have unexpected results, often opposite to the intended results -- selhat, ztroskotat
1 (of a motor-car etc) to make a loud bang because of unburnt gases in the exhaust system -- zpětný zážeh
The car backfired.
Conversely, nonlocals' use of please backfires because acting "proper" asser ts superiority in terms not locally condoned.
The concentration on softness and the absence of microscopic life as criteria of purity backfired.
In such circumstances, it is scarcely surprising that it backfired.
They intended to enter the markets to take advantage of our tragedy, but found that raising the issue backfired on them at home.
The last time he did so, it backfired in his face.
A car draws into a road check point and as it is leaving it backfires.
What is particularly frustrating for me is that the promised election awareness advertisement has spectacularly backfired.
I am sure that he appreciates the danger of irony because it often backfires; he will learn from that experience.
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