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a disaster you signed up for, narrated later with suspicious amounts of pride
means A piece of bad luck or a mishap, especially one resulting from carelessness or a venture gone wrong.
from From Old French 'mesaventure,' built from the prefix 'mes-' (badly, wrongly — a cousin of the 'mis-' in 'mishap' and 'mistake') and 'aventure,' meaning a chance happening or that which is about to come. 'Aventure' itself traces back to Latin 'adventurus,' the future participle of 'advenire,' 'to arrive' — so buried inside the word is the idea of something coming toward you. A misadventure, then, is literally a thing that arrives badly. English borrowed it in the Middle Ages, and it still survives in the chilling legal phrase 'death by misadventure.'
- legal term
- verdicts cite death by misadventure as official cause
- word roots
- from Old French, meaning to turn out badly
- survival bonus
- the best stories are failures you walked away from
- adventure's twin
- only the ending decides which name it gets
scott's south pole expedition — 1911-1912 race to antarctica where scott's team perished in blizzard just 11 miles from supply depot