Murphy's Law Definition
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noun
A facetiously pessimistic proposition stating that if there is a possibility for something to go wrong, it will go wrong.
Webster's New World
Origin of Murphy's Law
From Edward A. Murphy, Jr., a development engineer who worked for a brief time on the rocket sled experiments of the United States Air Force in 1948.
From Wiktionary
After Edward A. Murphy (1918–1990), American engineer
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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