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☆ Murphy's Law

a facetious or satirical proposition stating that if there is a possibility for something to go wrong, it will go wrong

Etymology: after E. A. Murphy, Jr., U.S. engineer who formulated the orig. version (1949)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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