fiasco

A sudden or unexpected failure.

• The event turned into a complete fiasco when the power went out.
• His speech was a fiasco that left the audience confused.

A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.

• There was the fiasco about Olga coming to the tableaux, which was the cause of her sending that very tart reply, via Miss Lyall, to Lady Ambermere's impertinence, and the very next morning, Lady Ambermere, coming again into Riseholme, perha

A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.

• I sent for the porter and when he came I told him in Italian to get me a bottle of Cinzano at the wine shop, a fiasco of chianti and the evening papers. He went away and brought them wrapped in newspaper, unwrapped them and, when I asked hi