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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a fiasco on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or event that has gone wrong or failed, often in a public or notable way.
Example: "The event turned into a fiasco on the opening night, with technical difficulties and a lack of organization."
Alternatives: "a disaster at" or "a debacle over".
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Napoleon soon realized he had a fiasco on his hands and wanted out.
The concert that was supposed to begin the comeback tour for Amy Winehouse turned into a fiasco on Saturday night when the troubled singer came on stage in Belgrade apparently too drunk to perform.
After what was regarded as a fiasco on gays in the military, the Administration entered a phase of deep reluctance to tackle substantive gay-rights issues on the national stage.
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This operation was a fiasco for the 4chan shitposters on many levels.
The Iraq war was a fiasco waged on the basis of scandalous lies.
But I have to say to you, if that is a fiasco, what on earth would you call a Conservative pledge to reflect marriage in the tax system, without the faintest idea about what it means?At least what we were dealing with was the precise mechanics and the idea we retained, rather than being flatly hypocritical about raising policy proposal when you haven't got the faintest idea about how to do it.
As for the poor pirouette, often "a lamentable fiasco on the stage," Volynsky does not find its best exponents in "the inhabitants of the Scythian-Sarmatian valleys.
Allocating "election points" on any finer gauge than is done now, in conjunction with the potential for the overall popular vote to differ by a single percentage point or less, would leave us facing the possibility of a Florida-style fiasco on a national scale, which would be nothing short of the greatest political crisis in our country since the Civil War.
Unless free traders start countering these arguments, prospects for the new round and for freer trade in general will be poor.Raising the stakesThere is indeed a danger that Seattle will turn out to be a fiasco: no agreement on an agenda, or a half-hearted one that will obviously lead nowhere.
But the Bay of Pigs invasion was a fiasco; every man on the beachhead was either killed or captured.
Radical right opposition party Jobbik said the referendum was "a fiasco" and called on Orban to resign if the vote proves invalid.
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