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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

Mur′phy's Law′,

the facetious proposition that if something can go wrong, it will. Also called Mur′phy's First′ Law′.

after a fictitious Murphy, allegedly the name of a bungling mechanic in U.south, southern. Navy educational cartoons of the 1950s American.

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Murphy's law and Sod's law
Murphy's Law: If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong
Murphy’s law.
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