Timeline for Proverb for when one is already in a hurry but the condition wastes even more time
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| 13 hours ago | comment | added | Suhail Nazir Khan | @HippoSawrUs I see your point but I doubt that's how the OP themselves think. "Every passing moment brings death" is how they think the translation should be— at least, along those lines. So I doubt the question is really about the temporal aspect of such situations even though the examples given are time-related. | |
| S 13 hours ago | history | suggested | HippoSawrUs | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| 17 hours ago | comment | added | HippoSawrUs | Nope, sorry, it's your logic that's off. There's no time or hurrying involved in yours. The OP is requesting something along the lines of 'The hurrier I go, the behinder I get' (misattributed to Carroll, they say, but sounds more like Pooh Bear to me) but in a way opposite to serendipity, as if the only time their gym friend is running behind is when they are in a hurry to leave, etc. E.g., 'The only time he takes the scenic route is when I'm late for work.' We have 100s of sayings like that here (US, SE). It's a fallacy, sort of. | |
| 18 hours ago | comment | added | Suhail Nazir Khan | @HippoSawrUs You've a unique way of seeing things and I appreciate your dissecting answers to look for inconsistencies but I'm afraid your logic doesn't work here. Please read the question and the situations given therein carefully along with the Cambridge example I've provided in my answer. | |
| 18 hours ago | comment | added | HippoSawrUs | Expecting something to go wrong all the time is just being a pessimist, a big one. Murphy's Law is not, e.g.: 'I didn't expect the bus to ever be on time; I thought I could be late every day for the rest of my life and this happens. On the worst day possible!' That's just not having one's sh-t together (AmE). Or like, 'I showed up late, as usual, but they still had beer and Solo cups. What is happening!?' Still not anything. Not your downvoter though…nvm. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Suhail Nazir Khan | *late edit: close fit for. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | An epigram for 'when one bad thing happens it causes a chain -reaction of bad things has already been closed as a duplicate. The only argument for this question being different is the 'hurrying leading to even more wasted time' factor, which would need addressing directly ... Murphy's Law is too general here. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | @SuhailNazirKhan If you click on the votes figure you will see you have no downvotes (as at the time of this comment, anyway). Someone may have retracted an upvote. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Suhail Nazir Khan | Why the downvote? These folks are a scourge of this site. At least, leave an explanation as to why the answer attracted the downvote. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Suhail Nazir Khan | @Dove More of an empirical observation, which is used in these types of situations. If you're looking for a proverb, when it rains, it pours is s close fit to the situations in the question. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Dove | @SuhailNazirKhan is it a proverb? | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Suhail Nazir Khan | @Barmar Was only aware of Murphy's Law. Thanks. Have added the extended version. | |
| 2 days ago | history | edited | Suhail Nazir Khan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| 2 days ago | comment | added | Barmar | More like the extended version, which adds "and at the worst possible time". | |
| 2 days ago | history | answered | Suhail Nazir Khan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |