Sentence examples for it was fiasco from inspiring English sources

It was "fiasco, a fiasco!" (This is an Italian word meaning "bottle", and its new sense may derive from the loser in a card game having to buy the wine. It would be more apt for Mr Berlusconi rather than Cameron, who so far, on this issue, hasn't bottled it).

Critically it was a fiasco.

It was a fiasco — and it was a compromise.

In hindsight, it was a fiasco.

"It was a fiasco," recalls Dunford.

"It was a fiasco," he said.

It was a fiasco, as could easily have been predicted.

It was a fiasco from start to finish.

It was a fiasco that extended beyond Minnesota.

It was a fiasco, his whole force being captured apart from a few killed.

It was a fiasco rightly called a "tessellated pavement" by his political opponent Edmund Burke.