| 单词 | bread always falls buttered side down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbread (also toast) always falls buttered side down P2. bread (also toast) always falls buttered side down and variants: used to express the belief that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Cf. Murphy's Law n.See also slightly earlier variant with butter at butter n.1 Phrases 3b. ΚΠ 1864 Daily Miners' Reg. (Central City, Colorado) 26 Feb. We have heard and fully tested the philosophical axiom that bread always falls on the buttered side. 1891 J. L. Kipling Beast & Man in India x. 246 We express the completeness of ill-luck by saying, ‘The bread never falls but on its buttered side.’ 1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 Mar. b14 If a piece of buttered bread is dropped, it will fall with the buttered side down..simply because of the innate perversity of inanimate objects. That's the way life is. 2008 Times (Nexis) 29 Jan. 16 Sod's Law tells us toast always lands buttered side down. < as lemmas |
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