backfire on someone



backfire (on someone)

in. [for a scheme meant to cause harm to someone or something] to harm the person who runs the scheme. I hope this plan doesn’t backfire on me.
See also: backfire, on

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Ercanbald-Ancient Germanic
ÇAĞAtay-Turkish
Fredo-Italian (Rare)
Danica-Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Slovak, Czech, Macedonian, English
Yuliana-Russian, Bulgarian, Indonesian
Glykeria-Greek