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MURPHY'S LAW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Murphy's Law mean?
• MURPHY'S LAW (noun)
The noun MURPHY'S LAW has 1 sense:
1. humorous axiom stating that anything that can go wrong will go wrong
Familiarity information: MURPHY'S LAW used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Humorous axiom stating that anything that can go wrong will go wrong
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("Murphy's Law" is a kind of...):
gnome (a short pithy saying expressing a general truth)
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