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When bad luck gets organized and files paperwork.
means A rare, disastrous convergence of several bad factors at once, each one survivable alone but catastrophic together.
from Popularized by Sebastian Junger's 1997 book 'The Perfect Storm,' about a 1991 fishing boat lost when a hurricane, a cold front, and a nor'easter collided off the Atlantic coast — three separate storm systems merging into one monster. The phrase existed in meteorology before that, describing the rare pile-up of ideal conditions for maximum destruction, but the book and its 2000 film adaptation are what pushed it into everyday use for any situation where everything goes wrong at once.
- origin
- Meteorologists hate the misused metaphor most
- the irony
- Nothing about it is actually perfect
- real version
- 1991 nor'easter had no name, just chaos
- overuse
- Now blamed for every bad quarterly report