Murphy's Law Definition

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noun
A facetiously pessimistic proposition stating that if there is a possibility for something to go wrong, it will go wrong.
Webster's New World
pronoun

An adage which states that if anything can go wrong, then it will.

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Origin of Murphy's Law

  • From Edward A. Murphy, Jr., a development engineer who worked for a brief time on the rocket sled experiments of the United States Air Force in 1948.

    From Wiktionary

  • After Edward A. Murphy (1918–1990), American engineer

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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