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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
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