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Finagle's law en · PROPN
Meanings
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An adage which states that if anything can go wrong, then it will at the worst possible moment.
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'.
1967, Theodore Sturgeon, “Amok Time”, in Star Trek, season 2, episode 1 (television production), spoken by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner):
Coordinates
serendipity
Synonyms
Murphy's law · Sod's law