blow up in one's face

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === blow up in one's face (third-person singular simple present blows up in one's face, present participle blowing up in one's face, simple past blew up in one's face, past participle blown up in one's face) (intransitive, idiomatic) To fail disastrously. ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== hoist by one's own petard