"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.