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backfire VB intr

backfire plan

ter resultado oposto ao que se espera

backfire car

sair gases pelo escapamento

backfire gun

sair o tiro pela culatra

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The radical changes it forces on a targeted population can backfire, including the counterproductive result of freeing inessential labourers to fill worker shortages in war industries. en.wikipedia.org

But that voracity can backfire. www.usatoday.com

Her plan backfires when a duet between the two results in a deepening of their respect for one another vocally. en.wikipedia.org

He usually deploys robots or uses strange contraptions to carry out his dirty deeds, but it usually backfires on him. en.wikipedia.org

Prolonged operation at rich mixtures can cause catastrophic failure of the catalytic converter (see backfire). en.wikipedia.org

And that all of that was in my eyes all the time, backfiring all these years... en.wikipedia.org

Closing in on the cat, one of the incoming attackers go for the coup de grace, only to receive a backfire. en.wikipedia.org

Sweet goes through but suffers a head injury (due to a trick he pulled that backfired). en.wikipedia.org

However, in the faltering economy of that period into the early 1980s, this would backfire, and the chain's image with consumers soured. en.wikipedia.org

He often finds himself building huge machinery, such as roach-catching contraptions, most of the time resulting in them backfiring. en.wikipedia.org

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