blow up in (one's) face

To have a plan go wrong or awry. Mike was trying to sabotage my campaign, but the plan blew up in his face when I overhead him talking about it. Tina's decision to invest only in technology stocks has really blown up in her face.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Antun	-	Croatian
Steve	[sti:v]
Annmarie	AN-mə-ree	English
Petruccio	-	Medieval Italian
Svetomir	-	Serbian, Bulgarian
Clothildis	-	Ancient Germanic (Latinized)