In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
FLOODHEAD
floodhead
(noun) a wall of water rushing ahead of the flood; “we were lucky to be safe when the floodheads hit”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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