Meaning of WELL THAT BACKFIRED! - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So in English if you use the phrase, "Well
that backfired!", it means that you were expecting
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one thing to happen, and the exact opposite
happened.
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So a good example of this would be maybe you
are playing on a football team or a soccer
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team and you are the keeper or goalie, and
you have just stopped an attempt on the goal,
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and you are going to kick the ball to one
of your own players, and when you kick the
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ball it goes to someone on the opposite team
instead.
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In that situation you would say, "Well that
backfired!", because you wanted it to go to
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your player but it went to the opposite person.
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So when something backfires on you in English
it means that the opposite thing happened.
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The, the word backfire actually is a loud
banging noise that the muffler on your vehicle
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might make sometimes.
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Sometimes an engine can backfire.
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