(n.) A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said there were a sufficient number of shifts at Heathrow to maintain "a full immigration desk policy" and insisted the contingency planning for security at the Games, which had seen more than 18,000 military personnel called in, meant the government had enough troops in place or in reserve to make up for the G4S staffing fiasco.
(2) Train operators fear the revised rail franchise timetable announced in the wake of the west coast fiasco is already slipping as documents for the first contest appear likely to be delayed until autumn.
(3) The BBC Trust The green paper sounds the death knell for the BBC’s current governance system in the form of the BBC Trust, which it says has come under “sustained criticism” as a result of the Savile scandal, the £100m Digital Media Initiative fiasco and excessive payoffs and salaries to BBC executives.
(4) It will come under close examination given recent controversies over BBC spending, from the multi-million payoffs given to former executives to the £100m Digital Media Initiative fiasco.
(5) The dotcom fiasco, and that is what it looks like, noting as we do many more complaints over praise for the current proposition, leaves a bitter taste for investors to our minds.
(6) The carmaker's full-year results highlight how, when the quake struck, Toyota had been on its way to a recovery from the recall fiasco, affecting 14m vehicles worldwide, which had battered its reputation for quality.
(7) It only looks like a $100m movie.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest I think Britons of Poulter’s generation – now in their late teens and early 20s, spectators while the economic fiascos of recent years shredded their odds of financial stability in the future – are more inclined to be aware of money, and more inclined to be aware of its reckless use.
(8) Then there’s the shift from disability living allowance to the personal independence payment , which last month the public accounts committee savaged as a “fiasco”, leaving many facing six-months delays – and the dying having to wait for weeks for support.
(9) On Thursday morning the opposition said it was “clearly a port” and accused Giles of hiding amid the fiasco.
(10) Nearly every discussion of the Greek fiasco is based on a morality play.
(11) Morrissey also has words for the royal family, saying Prince William and his new "fiasco" fiancee, Kate Middleton, "are so dull as people that it is actually impossible to discuss them".
(12) It owed altogether too much to Scott and was a fiasco that stung its author so badly that a story claims he sought out all the copies he could find to have them burnt.
(13) No more welfare cuts to come under Theresa May, says minister Read more Claimants might breathe a sigh of relief that no more cuts are expected, but even Osborne had by the end, via the tax credits U-turn and the personal independence payments (PIP) fiasco , crashed into the limits of what was politically possible.
(14) Spelman has failed to recover from the fiasco of plans to sell off parts of the national forest.
(15) The word "fiasco" spends most of the year slumbering undisturbed, but come the exam results and it's everywhere.
(16) The UK Border Agency is to be split in two after an official inquiry report found that poor communication, poor oversight and confusion among ministers and senior officials lay at the heart of last summer's border checks fiasco.
(17) Romney said the fallout from the G4S security fiasco and a threatened strike by immigration officials were "disconcerting" and questioned whether British people would get behind the Games.
(18) That has officials worried about excessive levels of debt, which could potentially lead to a crisis akin to the US mortgages fiasco that metastasised into the 2008 credit crunch and subsequent global recession.
(19) Their concerns over the company's property assets (articulated by Katy Clark MP at several sessions) are a reminder that the verdict on whether the float is a success or a fiasco can't come for years.
(20) But the public, and especially the party’s supporters, deserve to know what happened and what has happened behind the scenes in this fiasco within the party of transparency, and I have decided that this is the best course of action.
Jacket
Definition:
(n.) A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.
(n.) An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc.
(n.) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reenforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
(n.) A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket.
(v. t.) To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket.
(v. t.) To thrash; to beat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whenever Fox meets someone for the first time, he slips on this look as instinctively as others shuck on a jacket when they leave the house.
(2) Eventually I was given a bag with my name on it, containing my jacket, wallet, and camera equipment.
(3) You’d think Michael Foot himself was running, attending debates in a hammer and sickle-print donkey jacket, from the amount we’ve been talking about him.
(4) Moderate to severe SRs were equally likely after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, and yellow hornet (65%), honeybee (67%), or wasp (70%), although historical SRs were reported more often after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, or yellow hornet (30%) than after honeybee (19%) or wasp (14%) stings.
(5) Jackets were frozen for storage and were later thawed and placed on experimental alien lambs.
(6) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
(7) Some antennae were equipped with an external cooling jacket.
(8) He would shower his fans with red roses at his concerts, he told the court, and give them jackets, T-shirts and other gifts.
(9) The fighters now look fat in winter combat jackets of as many different camouflage patterns as the origins of their units, hunched against a freezing wind that whips off the desert scrub.
(10) She said: "I was out on the deck enjoying the fresh air when I saw a winter jacket in the water.
(11) Everything was quiet, and there was the jacket on the stand – finished, perfect.” As the business grew, McQueen moved to Amwell Street where the studio was “like a magic porridge pot of creativity”, said Witton-Wallace.
(12) As Rush began to speak, he took off his jacket to reveal the hoodie, which has become a symbol of solidarity with Martin.
(13) For real.” A resident in a green puffer jacket emerged from the shelter with her 10-year-old son.
(14) Wearing a white dress, black jacket and patent leather sandals, and clutching her mobile phone and keys, she could be on her way to an office in one of the capital's new skyscrapers, instead of walking past a patchwork of bean and sweet potato fields en route to the village's tin-roofed administration offices.
(15) Sometimes he puts on a leather bomber jacket and talks tough, but it doesn't become him.
(16) Since February 1982, 23 patients with scoliosis were treated by releasing the soft tissues on the concave side and plaster spinal fusion jacket.
(17) Monáe sits with her back to me on a high stool, jacket removed, braces crisscrossed over an immaculate white shirt.
(18) Yorkshire swine were anesthetized and their flanks were protected by flak jackets.
(19) In vain I argued that Robin Day seemed to wear the same jacket and shirt every week, and fled back to radio."
(20) The man in the wool jacket said, 'We will allow him to walk to Chacharan.