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verb
To fail to achieve an expected success, especially through counterproductive intervention.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: humorous
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History
Ironic reversal of a similar idiom, to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat, with the opposite meaning.
