The bitterness of defeat is familiar to everyone in one way or another. Not succeeding in any business, losing in the ring or in a board game is always annoying. You can often hear: "The player failed." This expression denotes loss or defeat. The word has other meanings that are completely opposite in meaning.
Fiasco - what is it?
The word has Italian roots, the exact translation of it is "failure, failure." Used to indicate any defeats and failures.
So, fiasco - what is it? According to one version, the failure of the Florentine harlequin was first called that way. This happened when he tried to make the audience laugh with the help of grimaces and a two-liter magnum. Since he failed to arouse the laughter of the crowd, he became angry with the straw-covered bottle (they used to be called "fiasco"), and threw it away, saying that it was she who was the culprit of his failure. With this action, the harlequin made the audience laugh, but the process of failure received the name "fiasco" of the same name with the bottle.
Usage examples
Fiasco -what it is, it is easiest to make out by examples, when exactly to use this word.
Speaking of negotiations or resolving controversial issues, it can be argued that if the parties to the conflict did not come to a peaceful conclusion, agreement, then one of the parties failed, that is, lost.
From a financial point of view and market relations, they say that a fiasco is a situation that causes an inability to correct the current economic situation.
About defeat in military conflicts, it is also appropriate to use this word. So, the expression "to fail" can be used when talking, for example, about the results of the Second World War, the campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte, about the collapse of the ideas of seizing colonies and lands by the Quadruple Alliance in the First World War.
The word also has another meaning: a fiasco is a way to decorate a bottle with a vine. This is the name of a board game or a measure of wine equal to 2.279 liters. It is also the title of a novel by the Polish writer Stanisław Lem and the pseudonym of a rap artist.
