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blow up in one's face
vs
die in the ass
blow up in one's face
verb
To fail disastrously.
die in the ass
verb
To fail to function properly.
To be left unresolved.
How often have the words
blow up in one's face
and
die in the ass
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)