"thing" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "Sometimes these things can really backfire."
- She always attempts to do "the right thing and it always backfires".
- If this thing backfires, I don't want Starfleet implicated, and trust me, neither do you.
- The things have backfired, but the failures have not been recognized.
- After the raid on the Kurds things backfired.
- She had been trying to do a favor for poor Lucy, trying to garner her some public sympathy, and the whole thing had backfired.
- Constance is mistaken for a ghost and the children hatch a plan to rid themselves of the obnoxious Rickenbackers, but things backfire.
- I could see that he was frightened and suspicious, and I hoped the whole thing wouldn't backfire.
- Without him, the thing he was doing would backfire, the Patrol ship would without any doubt blow itself up!
- They brought back Reva's sister Cassie as a pawn, but things backfired badly for them.
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