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Mignon Fogarty on Nostr: "Fiasco" has a fun origin! It goes back to an Italian phrase that meant "to make a ...

"Fiasco" has a fun origin!

It goes back to an Italian phrase that meant "to make a bottle." Weird!

Nobody knows for sure what that meant, but the leading theory seems to be that the loser in a game would have to buy the next bottle of wine.

It was first used in English as theater slang to describe a failure or breakdown in a performance.

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=fiasco

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