backfire

Spreading a one-size-fits-all model for girls' education could backfire.

Gerald Ford and the swine flu pandemic that never happened in 1976 is a cautionary tale that government action can backfire.

But with Americans fed up with corporate influence, will the move backfire?

Overall, taking steps to get pregnant quickly is more likely to pay off than it is to backfire.

And when that culture still holds onto sexist views of women, even attempts to rectify this imbalance can backfire.

If you have to burn off the rubbish, do so in small spots at a time, then backfire toward the center.

A handful of men were still grouped around Curt, working until the last moment to spread the backfire as far as possible.

Well, way uptown on Main Street, a motorcycle did backfire right beside us—and we all jumped and had a good laugh over it.

It was unusual for a motorcycle to backfire that close together, it seemed like.

It sounded like a motorcycle backfire at first—the first time we heard it—the first shot.