0 (of a plan) to have the opposite result from the one you intended:
1 (of an engine) to make a loud noise as a result of fuel burning too early:
2 (of a plan) to have the opposite result from the one you intended:
Some hotel owners worry that the idea of attracting more visitors may backfire and make the place less attractive.
3 (of an engine) to make a loud noise because the fuel burned too soon
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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