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Originally the stars' fault, now entirely yours.
means An event so badly ruined or ill-fated that it causes severe damage, failure, or suffering.
from From Italian 'disastro,' built from the prefix 'dis-' (bad, away) plus 'astro' (star), from Latin 'astrum,' from Greek 'astron.' It comes from astrology — a disaster was literally an event blamed on an unfavorable position of the stars or planets, the cosmos frowning on you. The sense drifted from fate written in the sky to any calamity, with the stars quietly dropped from the blame.
- literal meaning
- bad star, not bad luck
- astrology roots
- blamed planets, not people
- related word
- disastrous shares the star root
- shift in blame
- cosmic excuse became human failure