Finagle's law
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Etymology edit
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Proper noun edit
- 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 (television production), 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 edit
Translations edit
Murphy's law — see Murphy's law
Further reading edit
Finagle's law on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
