Idiom
blow up in one's face
Meaning
To fail disastrously.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“His risky plan to cheat on the test blew up in his face.”
“She tried to hide the truth from her boss, but the lie blew up in her face when the records arrived.”
“The ambitious political strategy, designed to secure a landslide victory, ultimately blew up in his face after the scandal reached the public.”
Examples
simple
“His risky plan to cheat on the test blew up in his face.”
contextual
“She tried to hide the truth from her boss, but the lie blew up in her face when the records arrived.”
complex
“The ambitious political strategy, designed to secure a landslide victory, ultimately blew up in his face after the scandal reached the public.”
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