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Blow up in your face?

If the bubbles explode too quickly, they’ll literally blow up in our face, spraying us with tiny drops of soap water.

These bubbles that blow up in our face, instead of making us look good, make us look bad. And that’s no fun at all.

Hence, the idea that if you do something and it blows up in your face, you’ve failed miserably. Some good endeavor, one with the best of intentions at any rate, has turned sour. It backfired, spectacularly and disastrously.

Therefore, and back to our example, don’t make any promise you cannot keep, lest that broken promise come back to haunt you.

Conversely, temper your expectations.

Or they, your lofty expectations may blow up in your face.

Oh, well, let’s commiserate with people who’ve experienced it first hand, having something blown up in their face one way or another, in the following media examples:

1. While Gwen Stefani keeps playing coy about her maybe relationship with Blake Shelton, the “Used to Love You” singer is getting candid about her divorce from Gavin Rossdale.

“My life blew up in my face,” Stefani said on Tuesday during On Air With Ryan Seacrest.

She says her life started to crumble “the day after the GRAMMYs,” which would have been months before their divorce was made public.

Stefani and Rossdale announced their “mutual decision” to go their separate ways back in August after 13 years of marriage. The No Doubt singer’s divorce petition cited “irreconcilable differences,” but it is still unclear as to what was the inciting incident for the breakup.