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The thing you look for right before it finds you first.
means A state of difficulty, distress, or disturbance — or the specific mess that causes it.
from From Old French 'trubler' (to disturb or make cloudy), tracing back to Latin 'turbulare,' rooted in 'turba,' meaning a crowd or disturbance — the same root that gives us 'turbulent.' The core image is of clear water being stirred up and muddied: trouble is, etymologically, a kind of churning that clouds what was settled.
- origin
- from latin turbare, to disturb or stir up
- linguistic twist
- double trouble doubles the word, not just the problem
- universal law
- always arrives early, never leaves on time
- etymology cousin
- related to turbulent, same stirred-up root