murphy's law
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.07 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
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An adage which states that if anything can go wrong, then it will.
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Alternative letter-case form of Murphy's law.
Example Sentences
- "I ran into the perfect exemplification of “Murphy's law” at one university, where everything that could go wrong did!"
- "Thus we find that Murphy's Law is not a coincidence at all, but the consequence of a deep ‘anthropomurphic^([sic]) principle’: any universe built along conventional lines that contains intelligent polymurphs will conform to Murphy's Law."
- "‘It was an application of Murphy's Law,’ said one Vatican dignitary in a resigned voice. What was Murphy's Law? ‘Murphy's Law,’ said the dignitary, ‘is that everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong.’"
Etymology
Named after Edward A. Murphy Jr. (1918–1990), a development engineer who worked for a brief time on the rocket-sled experiments of the United States Air Force in 1948.