Murphy's law

English

Etymology

From Edward A. Murphy, Jr., a development engineer working for a brief time on rocket sled experiments done by the United States Air Force in 1948.

Proper noun

Wikipedia

Murphy's law

1. An adage which states that if anything can go wrong, then it will.

Synonyms

• Sod’s law
• Finagle's law

Antonyms

• serendipity

Translations

adage which states that if anything can go wrong it will

• Basque: Murphyren legea (eu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩菲定理 (cmn) (Mófēi dìnglǐ), 墨菲定律 (cmn) (Mòfēi dìnglǜ)

• Czech: Murphyho zákon (cs) m
• Finnish: Murphyn laki (fi)
• French: loi de Murphy (fr) f
• German: Murphys Gesetz (de) n
• Hungarian: Murphy törvénye (hu)
• Japanese: マーフィーの法則 (ja) (Māfī-no hōsoku)

• Norwegian: Loven om tingenes iboende faenskap. (no)
• Portuguese: Lei de Murphy (pt) f
• Russian: закон подлости (ru) (zakón pódlosti) m, закон Мёрфи (ru) (zakón Mjórfi) m
• Spanish: Ley de Murphy f
• Swedish: lagen om alltings jävlighet (sv), lagen om alltings inneboende ondska (sv), Murphys lag (sv)
• Turkish: Murphy kanunları (tr) pl