blow up in one's face

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blow up in one's face

verb blows up in one's face · blowing up in one's face · blew up in one's face · blown up in one's face

idiomatic, intransitive To fail disastrously. Whether the specific pecking order of the game I let them play today had anything to do with the fact that it blew up in my face after five minutes is a question that can be answered only in empirical terms.

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verb fail disastrously

Español	explotar en la cara de
中文	栽跟頭 /栽跟头 zāigēntou
Português	explodir na cara de
Français	exploser à la gueule, péter à la gueule
Deutsch	jemandem auf die Füße fallen, ins Auge gehen
Русский	с тре́ском провали́ться s tréskom provalítʹsja

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@misc{blow_up_in_one_s_face_2026,
  title = {blow up in one's face},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blow%20up%20in%20one's%20face},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}