Related Phrases
The concept of "inverse consequences" has a corollary in other phrases, as well:
- "the plan backfired" - meaning the opposite result occurred, as in a gun firing backward, rather than forward.
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Famous quotes containing the words related and/or phrases:
“Gambling is closely related to theft, and lewdness to murder.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. Nothing is more real than nothing. They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)