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means A complete and often humiliating failure, especially one that was public and could have been avoided.

from From Italian 'fiasco,' meaning 'bottle' or 'flask.' The leap from 'bottle' to 'spectacular failure' is murky even to etymologists — the most cited theory points to Italian theater slang 'far fiasco' ('to make a bottle'), possibly tied to glassblowers who, when a piece went wrong, would repurpose the botched glass into an ordinary flask. It's a plausible story, not a proven one — the exact link between bottles and bombing on stage has never been nailed down. The word entered English via theatrical and operatic circles in the 1800s, carrying the sense of a performance collapsing in front of an audience, and has broadened ever since to cover any grand failure with witnesses.