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No, but welcome, Max. Care to explain your screen name?
My guess is that the change came naturally, due to how very difficult it must be to learn to make one.
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I never noticed this strange meaning: already in Italian "Fare fiasco" means to have a failure, to not succeed in something: I will check my dictionary, and I will ask someone. Ciao Emanuela
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i've heard somewhere that it came from problems in the italian wine industry. so many more bottles of certain wines were sold than made (and i believe still are sometimes) that a fiasco came to mean a situation where rules had no effect.
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