Jan 25, 2017
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Snail sets out on a journey. かたつむり 旅に出る
I am steadily becoming obsessed with glass-work
Fiasco
This is the Italian word for bottle or flask. It is said that the Venetian glass-blowers, in making their beautiful glass-ware, when they discovered a flaw in the bulb would convert it into an ordinary flask, or fiasco, whence fiasco came to be synonymous with a failure.
Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William S. Walsh, 1892.