backfire on

To not proceed as one had planned or hoped. My plan to convince my parents that I'm responsible enough to have a car promptly backfired on me when I came home after curfew. The invading army's strategy completely backfired on them because they failed to account for the icy mountain terrain.

backfire on someone

Fig. [for something, such as a plot] to fail unexpectedly; to fail with an undesired result. Your plot backfired on you. I was afraid that my scheme would backfire on me.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Freyr	FRAYR	Norse Mythology, Icelandic
Avilius	-	Ancient Roman
Maude
Julinha	-	Portuguese
Coulter	['kəultə]
Theodora	thee-ə-DAWR-ə (English)	English, Greek, Ancient Greek