Finagle's law
English
Etymology
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Proper noun
Finagle's law
- An adage which states that if anything can go wrong, then it will at the worst possible moment.
- Synonyms: Murphy's law, Sod's law
- 1967, Theodore Sturgeon, “Amok Time”, in Star Trek, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner):
- Head directly for Altair Six. Sailor's luck, Mister Spock. Or, as one of Finagle's Laws puts it, 'Any home port the ship makes ill be somebody else's, not mine'.
Coordinate terms
- serendipity
Translations
Murphy's law — see Murphy's law
Further reading
Finagle's law on Wikipedia.Wikipedia