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 fe-as’ko
[fee-as-koh]
 fi-as-co
 noun
 A complete or
humiliating
failure, especially of
musical performances or
any pretentious
undertaking.
Etymology
 From Italian
fiasco
(“bottle, flask”)
Late Latin
flasca
Flasco
“bottle, container
”, of Germanic
Origin
1855, theater slang for “a
failure” .
Via French phrase fiare fiasco
“turn out a failure”.
From Italian far fiasco “suffer a
complete breakdown in performance”
Synonyms
• abortion, blunder,
botched situation,
breakdown, debacl
e, disaster, du
mb thing to do,
dumb trick.
embarrassment, error,
failure, farce, flap, flop,
mess, miscarriage, route,
ruin, screw
up, stunt, washout.
Antonyms
•advantage, benefit,
blessing, boon, miracle
, success, wonder.
Use FIASCO in a sentence:
Her husband, knowing
she could not play, shut
the piano to avoid fiasco.
Fiasco

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