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.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jamie	['dʒeimi]
Jumanah	-	Arabic
Ebru	-	Turkish
Margarita	mahr-gah-REE-tah (Spanish, Russian)	Spanish, Russian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Late Roman
Benson	['bensn]
Coralie	-	French