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backfire

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[backfire] {v.}

To misfire; to have a reverse effect from what was intended.

* /Mimi's gossip about the Head of the Department backfired wizen people began to mistrust her./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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