Crossword-Solution: BACKFIRE
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BACKFIRE | anagram | FIREBACK |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BACKFIRE (5)
When Pete jumped in and threw in the clutch, there was a backfire that sounded like the crack of doom.
Grannis and his buccaneers were behind the Automatic, but it was possible to direct and strengthen the backfire which the Era and other conservative newspapers had already begun.
Every one thought of firearms, but, as a matter of fact, something had gone wrong with the motor, what in those old-fashioned contrivances was called a backfire.
Saddam Hussein and the Iraqis' invasion of Kuwait demonstrate when this Potemkin Village model can backfire.
Suppression, while very often justified and necessary in the flux of human relationship, always carries a social cost which must be liquidated, and also a backfire danger which must be insured against.
Quotes with BACKFIRE (3)
Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it's gonna backfire; I'm gonna be active friendly.
Favoring specialization over intelligence is exactly wrong, especially in high tech. The world is changing so fast across every industry and endeavor that it's a given the role for which you're hiring is going to change. Yesterday's widget will be obsolete tomorrow, and hiring a specialist in such a dynamic environment can backfire. A specialist brings an inherent bias to solving problems that spawns from the very expertise that is his putative advantage, and may be threatene…
I always had trouble with the feet of Jón the First, or Pre-Jón, as I called him later. He would frequently put them in front of me in the evening and tell me to take off his socks and rub his toes, soles, heels and calves. It was quite impossible for me to love these Icelandic men's feet that were shaped like birch stumps, hard and chunky, and screaming white as the wood when the bark is stripped from it. Yes, and as cold and damp, too. The toes had horny nails that resemble…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, NYT, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1965–2018).