Murphy's Law

Murphy's Law
the facetious proposition that if something can go wrong, it will. Also called Murphy's First Law.
[Amer.; after a fictitious Murphy, allegedly the name of a bungling mechanic in U.S. Navy educational cartoons of the 1950s]

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