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Finagle's law
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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.
en Murphy's law Sod's law
en television production 1967 Star Trek Amok Time 2 1 William Shatner Captain James T. Kirk w:Theodore Sturgeon 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
en serendipity
Translations
Murphy's law
Further reading
en adages ending in "law" eponyms