Associations to the word «Fiasco»

Wiktionary

FIASCO, noun. A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
FIASCO, noun. A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.

Dictionary definition

FIASCO, noun. A sudden and violent collapse.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope