Big mess
Else clues• Bay of Pigs invasion, for example
• Big bomb
• Big flop
• Big turkey
• Bomb
• Complete bomb
• Complete catastrophe
• Complete debacle
• Complete disaster
• Complete failure
• Debacle
• Disaster
• Embarrassing result
• Flop
• Huge flop
• Lead balloon
• Mess
• Spectacular failure
• Total bomb
• Total disaster
• Total failure
• Total flop
• Total screwup
• Turkey
• Utter failure
• A sudden and violent collapse