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to fiasco
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A sudden or unexpected failure.
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The website of sports daily L'Equipe mirrored the despondent mood Monday, with a headline reading "Quand La Fete Tourne Au Fiasco" (When The Celebration Turns to Fiasco).
Instead, the right-wing UMP's internal election turned from farce to fiasco after the wafer-thin victory of Jean-François Copé, by just 98 votes, was contested by the loser, François Fillon.
Instead, the right-wing UMP's internal election turned from farce to fiasco after the wafer-thin victory of Jean-François Copé (pictured on the left) by just 98 votes, was contested by the loser, François Fillon (pictured on the right).
The Los Angeles Times was particularly scathing in its attack, noting how the film: "Goes from inept to complete disaster, sinking from indifferent to fiasco in the blink of an eye".
In just a few months, the auction of Europe's high-speed wireless licenses, once ballyhooed as heralding a new generation of Internet-linked mobile phones and other devices, has turned from cash cow to fiasco.
It speaks to the relentless genius of Sondheim and the greatness of "Into the Woods" that this apparent throwaway was actually assembled using intentional non-rhymes, each with the necessary combination of dissimilar vowel and consonant sounds to suggest the dim-wittedness of the character.There's an equally devious ingenuity to Fiasco Theater Company's take on "Into the Woods".
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Changes to benefits for sick and disabled people have led to a "fiasco", causing unnecessary distress to thousands of people, MPs have warned.
8.30pm / 1.30am: Cornel gives a shout out to Lupe Fiasco, as well as to "Kanye and the other folk".
There could hardly have been more conducive circumstances to a fiasco than those relating to this new national scheme which overnight brought into existence an expanded unelected bureaucracy with massive discretionary powers.
However, the siege of Belaya turned to a fiasco although the king manage to capture Vyazma.
It has been applied to artists ranging from Jay-Z to Lupe Fiasco.
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