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Blow up in your face
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Blow up in your face
When something you planned goes very wrong and backfires in a dramatic way.
Examples:
1- The whale explosion blew up in the officials’ faces — literally.
2- The marketing campaign blew up in their face when customers hated the ad.
Hello and welcome to Daily English,as it’s the weekend, we learn English through stories. The full transcript is in the description.
Today’s story is about one of the strangest disasters in U.S. history — the exploding whale.
In 1970, a dead whale washed up on a beach in Oregon. It was huge — 45 feet long and weighing over 8 tons. Officials didn’t know how to get rid of it. They thought burying it would take too long, and cutting it up seemed too unpleasant. So they came up with a brilliant idea: blow it up with dynamite. A crowd gathered to watch. The explosives went off with a thunderous boom. But instead of the whale disappearing into small pieces as planned, giant chunks of rotting flesh flew through the air. Cars were smashed. People ran screaming. A huge piece even landed on a roof. The plan hadn’t solved the problem. It had literally blown up in their face.
Idiom of the Day: Blow up in your face To blow up in your face means: When something you planned goes very wrong and backfires in a dramatic way.
Examples: The whale explosion blew up in the officials’ faces — literally.
His lie blew up in his face when the truth came out.
The marketing campaign blew up in their face when customers hated the ad.
I tried to fix the sink myself, but it blew up in my face and flooded the kitchen.
Question for You: Have you ever had a plan blow up in your face? What happened?
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