Sentence examples for which backfired from inspiring English sources
Which backfired when she saw it.
It's all part of their juvenile "Mutineers" campaign which backfired.
On Sunday, for example, Ryan ordered a gutsy but ill-advised fake punt, which backfired.
But they decided to play the momentum game, which backfired on them.
Djalili also blames himself for cracking a suicide-bombing joke, which "backfired, and I had 700 people chanting 'USA, USA'".
To them, the plan carries echoes of previous American efforts to arm rebels in Angola, Nicaragua and elsewhere, many of which backfired.
I think that the no meat on Friday thing was supposed to be a form of us "giving up" something we enjoyed on a weekly basis, which kind of backfired because I friggin' love pizza.
So we ended up wandering around all day in shame, knowing that he was going to rub the backfired plan in our faces (which, by the way, involved eating an actual face).
The last such round of public-sector cuts, in June, which shut down the state broadcasting system, badly backfired and nearly shattered Mr. Samaras's fragile governing coalition.
An attempt to reduce the amount it pays by a fifth dramatically backfired as it narrowly missed out to BSkyB, which had already secured four of the six packages on offer from the start of the 2010-11 season.
It was widely believed that the values campaign, which reached its apotheosis at the party's convention in Houston, badly backfired, sending a signal of intolerance rather than shared values.
