August 2020
ENGLISH IDIOM OF THE MONTH:
„Murphy’s law“
MEANING
It means that when there is a possibility for something to go wrong it will go wrong.
TRANSLATION
wörtlich: Murphy’s Gesetz.
ORIGIN
Edward A. Murphy, Jr, engineer in the US Air Force, coined the term after expressing annoyance with his research team. Stating that ‘if things could be done wrongly, they would be’.
